The layout of inter-princely correspondence is an important, but overlooked, aspect of how early modern princes communicated and contested their relative status. While recent scholarship on material letters has illuminated social relations within European polities, the ways in which the mise-en-page of royal letters can be used to explore the relationships between rulers has been neglected. Focusing primarily on letters written to or by English monarchs of the sixteenth century, this article analyses the space on the page in order to demonstrate the way in which epistolary etiquette expressed hierarchies and could be used to claim status.

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主权空间：Mise-en-page 和 16 世纪英国皇家通信的政治*

王子间通信的布局是早期现代王子如何交流和争夺其相对地位的一个重要但被忽视的方面。虽然最近关于物质信件的学术研究阐明了欧洲政体内部的社会关系，但皇家信件的大杂烩可以用来探索统治者之间关系的方式却被忽视了。本文主要关注写给或由 16 世纪英国君主写的信件，本文分析了页面上的空间，以展示书信礼仪表达等级的方式，并可以用来声明地位。