Chapter 12 Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg’s Foreign Policy (1688–97)

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Chapter 1 Introduction: The Age of Secretaries 1
5. Chapter 2 Records, Politics and Diplomacy: Secretaries and Chanceries in Renaissance Italy (1350–c. 1520) 16
6. Chapter 3 Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530): Imperial Chancellor, Strategist of Empire 37
7. Chapter 4 ‘This continuous writing’: The Paper Chancellery of Bernhard Cles 63
8. Chapter 5 Parables and Dark Sentences: The Correspondence of Sir William Cecil and William Maitland (1559–73) 90
9. Chapter 6 Axel Oxenstierna and Swedish Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century 115
10. Chapter 7 Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: The Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592–1641) 140
11. Chapter 8 Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy (1635–59): Statesmanship in Context 155
12. Chapter 9 The Learned Ideal of the Mughal Wazīr: The Life and Intellectual World of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Shirazi (d. 1639) 177
13. Chapter 10 Reconsidering State and Constituency in Seventeenth- Century Safavid Iran: The Wax and Wane of the Munshi 206
14. Chapter 11 Choreographers of Power: Grigorii Kotoshikhin, State Secretaries and the Muscovite Royal Wedding Ritual 235
15. Chapter 12 Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg’s Foreign Policy (1688–97) 254
16. Chapter 13 Chancellor of State: Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg Foreign Office and Foreign Policy in the Era of Enlightened Absolutism 273
17. Index 298