Early Modern European Diplomacy : : A Handbook / / ed. by Dorothée Goetze, Lena Oetzel.

New Diplomatic History has turned into one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research – especially with regard to early modern history. It has shown that diplomacy was not as homogenous as previously thought. On the contrary, it was shaped by a multitude of actors, practices and places. Th...

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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 A Diplomat Is a Diplomat Is a Diplomat? On How to Approach Early Modern European Diplomacy in Its Diversity: An Introduction
  • I Historiographical Perspectives
  • 2 New Diplomatic History and the Multi-Layered Diversity of Early Modern Diplomacy
  • 3 Multiple Actors and Pluralistic Practices: Non-European Perspectives on Early Modern Diplomatic Relations
  • 4 Reunited: International Relations Meets the (New) Diplomatic History
  • II (Contemporary) Diplomatic Discourses
  • 5 Configuring Diplomatic Office and Activity: The Literature on the Ambassador
  • 6 Diplomacy in Early Modern Literature
  • 7 Art and Diplomacy
  • III Development of European Diplomacy – an Overview
  • 8 Representing Spiritual and Secular Interests: The Development of Papal Diplomacy
  • 9 City States, Principalities and All That: The Diversity of Italian Diplomacy (c. 1400 – c. 1800)
  • 10 Continuous Change, Final Discontinuities: the Development of French Diplomacy
  • 11 Spanish and Portuguese Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe
  • 12 Dutch Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century: An Introduction
  • 13 Evolution and Revolution in British Diplomacy
  • 14 The Diplomatic Service in Early Modern Russia
  • 15 Early Modern Ottoman Diplomacy (1520s–1780s): A Brief Outline
  • 16 No Country for New Diplomatic History: Diplomacy within the Holy Roman Empire
  • 17 Between the Great Powers: Early Modern Swiss Diplomacy
  • 18 Scandinavian Diplomacy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
  • 19 Between the East and the West: The Evolution of Diplomacy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland
  • IV Spheres of Diplomatic Interactions
  • 20a European Diplomacy and the Early Modern Court
  • 20b The Ottoman Court as a Special Venue for European Diplomacy
  • 20c Rome as a Space of Diplomatic Interactions in the Early Modern Age
  • 21 Spheres of Diplomatic Interactions: Towns
  • 22 A Diplomatic Sphere of lts Own: Early Modern Peace Congresses
  • 23 Diets as a Sphere of Diplomatic Interaction
  • V Diplomatic Actors
  • 24 Princes, Republics, Towns, Trading Organisations: A Broad Spectrum of Sending Institutions
  • 25 Diplomatic Actors: Social Profile, Education and Careers
  • 26 Women and Diplomacy in the Early Modern Period
  • 27 Early Modern Consuls as Agents of Diplomacy
  • VI Diplomacy in Practice
  • 28 Diplomatic Ceremonial in Early Modern Europe
  • 29 Clientele and Patronage in Early Modern Diplomacy
  • 30 Language and Diplomatic Culture in the Early Modern Period
  • 31 Diplomatic Reporting: Negotiating the Truth in Westphalia and Beyond
  • 32 Acquisition of Information and Espionage
  • 33 Material Exchanges: Gifts, Tribute and Corruption
  • 34 The Finances of Non-Permanent Diplomacy
  • 35 Conflict Management in the Early Modern Period: Mediating and Safeguarding Treaties
  • 36 Theatrical Negotiations: Performance and Festive Culture in Early Modern Diplomacy
  • 37 Cultural Transfer in Ottoman-European Diplomacy: The Case of Sweden 1600 – 1800
  • 38 Emotions in Early Modern Diplomacy
  • VII Epilogue
  • 39 A World of Pandas, GIFs and Costumes: Early Modern Diplomacy from a Public History Perspective
  • VIII Appendix
  • 40 Selective Bibliography of Primary Sources and Editions
  • Index