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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 […]
The accquistion of information was the most important function of early modern diplomats which was facilitaded through the establishment of permanent embassies from the 15th century onwards and discussed in numerous contemporary handbooks and treatises on early modern diplomacy. The boundaries […]
Lobenwein is a Post-Doc at the German Historical Institute at Rome @MaxWeberStiftung After research on nobility and questions of medical history, her current project focuses on the acquisition and processing of information of Habsburg and Venetian diplomats in the Ottoman Empire […]
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It is crucial to recognise that an #emdiplomat’s networks were not necessarily diplomatic in itself, as being an envoy or an ambassador was usually only a part of a courtly or administrative career. However, a diplomat stayed in foreign […]