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Over the #earlymodern period different practices to manage conflicts and guarantee peace agreements were established that Laufs and Wenzel will introduce to us. Thus, illustrating the ingenuity but also the limits of #emdiplomacy. (6/6)
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But diplomats did not only try to settle conflicts, they tried to prevent them! Peace treaties and truces were provided with treaty sureties that aimed at safeguarding the agreements. Negotiating these sureties could be difficult and conflictual, too. (5/6)
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Today we want to introduce to you one of our #emdiplomacy dream teams: Markus Laufs and Christian Wenzel!
Markus Laufs currently works at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, where he’s part of the team that reconceptualise the permanent exhibition and is responsible for the […]
First page of: Markus Laufs and Christian Wenzel 35 Conflict Management in the Early Modern Period: Mediating and Safeguarding Treatis
35 Markus Laufs/Christian Wenzel: Conflict Management in the Early Modern Period: Mediating and Safeguarding Treaties
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-037
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Pühringer highlights the need for more and comparative research on #emdiplomacy’s finances which can reveal completely new connections and networks that could help to explain other ambiguities. (8/8)
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Often the agreed amounts were only paid out after the mission’s completion, and the travel and subsistence expenses, which were often agreed upon separately, were carefully checked and settled, and in some cases even refused.
For many #emdiplomats […]
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A problem, when it comes to researching the financial side of #emdiplomacy, is that the sources often are distorted as well as incomplete, because of separate budgets or because specific services were not paid for at all or in another way. Account books […]
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Pühringer stresses that it has not only to be asked from which sources diplomatic missions were financed, but also whether one single mission was financed from different sources.
The finances of non-permanent missions consisted of two sides, that of the […]
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The concept of finance in the early modern period is a very broad & the transition to gifts, bribery & corruption is rather fluid. So, we also recommend the article by Mark Häberlein on gift-giving. (4/8) […]
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Surprisingly, the question of the financial side of emdiplomacy has received little attention in research apart from the trope of the poorly paid diplomat or the prince who could not send his own envoy for financial reasons. (3/8)
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It’s high time we introduce the next #handbook article and its author! Please welcome Andrea Pühringer who is a freelance historian based in Marburg. In her research, she focuses on social, cultural and economic history. Although she is not an expert on […]
"In this sense, the approximately 800-page handbook edited by Dorothée Goetze and Lena Oetzel can be understood as both a testimony to maturity and a synopsis of research and historiographical evaluation
of early modern diplomacy.
However, the editors' introduction makes it very clear that this […]
We have to admit that a giraffe is not exactly a common pet - but who knows...
Whether you are a diplomat or not, we would love to see pictures of our pet(s)! (4/4)
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Did you spot the giraffe in the painting?
In fact, Giorgio Riello argues that “it was not Lorenzo’s real animal but its representation in Ghirlandaio’s fresco that kept the visual imagination of giraffes alive in Europe”.
This points us to another topic for another day: the visual […]
Photograph (colour): Domenico Ghirlandaio's painting "Adoration of the magi"
But the afterlife of the giraffe was much longer. It had been the first giraffe in Europe since the 13th century and it remained so for many centuries coming. Thus, one should not wonder that it was commemorated in literature and paintings, such as the […]
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We want to follow up last week’s thread on diplomatic gift-giving with a very impressive example: the fate of a giraffe
In 1487, Lorenzo de Medici received the giraffe as a gift by Sultan Qā’itbāy of Egypt who thereby showed his support in Lorenzo’s fight against the Ottomans.
The animal was […]
Affiche de la journée d'études. Le visuel est un buste de femme portant une coiffe de perles qui enveloppe toute sa chevelure. Son cou est enserré dans un collier de perles à multiples rangs.
Voici le programme du jour!
Diplomaties de cour, diplomaties des femmes, du cadre officiel aux missions officieuses. Une journée d'études pour compléter l'exposition "Excellences!", dans l'auditorium du château de Versailles.
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But what do you do with all these exquisite gifts, when they are not for personal use?
They are registered and kept in official collection.
The German government and the government of the German federal states occasionally auction them off as part of a raffle.
Perhaps you want to take a look […]
Gift giving is not only key to early modern #diplomacy, but to modern, too.
Head of states frequently exchange presents, but these were of course not for themselves as individuals.
Moreover, the importation of state gifts is even regulated by customs law. The German customs authority […]
Drawing (Black/White): Profile of an elephant. The head points to the left hand side. On the elephant's back sits a person in 16th century clothes holding a stick in the right hand. Another person in 16th century clothes holds the trunk of the elephant.
A special kind of gifts were animals, especially exotic animals were very popular, such as expensive horses, elephants, rhinos, leopards, giraffes etc.
But animals were risky presents, as they had of course a mind of their own. How did it look like, if a […]
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Gift-giving played a central role in early modern diplomacy. Gifts helped to communicate status and power and to initiate and stabilise alliances.
Häberlein explains the motives and intentions behind gift-giving, the political and cultural contexts of gift exchange, the actors involved, the […]
It’s Sunday and we do not want to conclude this week without introducing you to our author Mark Häberlein.
He is Professor for Modern History at Bamberg University. He published extensively on early modern cities, knowledge, languages and material culture.
Especially interesting for us is his […]
As a scholar of early modern European diplomacy and peace history Dorothée learned a lot about early 20th century East Asia. Moreover, it was interesting to get more insights into research about Japan and Korea. At the same time the different perspectives from scholars of International Relations […]
In September our co-editor @dorotheegoetze had quite an exciting (and somewhat challenging) task to fulfil:
She was invited to give a paper on diplomacy and peripheral states at a workshop on Korea and the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905. This was an exciting experience but also challenging for […]
Le #VendrediLecture du jour est une auto-promo éhontée... Je vous ai dit la semaine dernière qu'on avait ouvert notre exposition "Excellences!" au public; eh bien, nous avons aussi commis un catalogue. Avec de belles images. Et j'ai un peu écrit dedans. J'espère qu'il vous plaira!
"Excellences! […]
However, as we mentioned before, we are very happy to talk about other early modern diplomacy related topics, too. Please tell us what you to read more about! We already have received some suggestions, but we are looking forward to more. (2/2)
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We are back from our summer break and look forward to talking about early modern diplomacy again!
We still have some handbook chapters to introduce – this seems to be somewhat of a never-ending story or rather the never-ending big pink book... (1/2)
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We are still on annual leave and enjoy the summer. However, we think already about the @emdiplomacy account's future programme. There are still some handbook chapters left that we want to introduce to you.
But what else are you interested in? Which early modern diplomacy related topics do you […]
