2 New Diplomatic History and the Multi-Layered Diversity of Early Modern Diplomacy

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 A Diplomat Is a Diplomat Is a Diplomat? On How to Approach Early Modern European Diplomacy in Its Diversity: An Introduction 1
4. I Historiographical Perspectives
5. 2 New Diplomatic History and the Multi-Layered Diversity of Early Modern Diplomacy 27
6. 3 Multiple Actors and Pluralistic Practices: Non-European Perspectives on Early Modern Diplomatic Relations 49
7. 4 Reunited: International Relations Meets the (New) Diplomatic History 69
8. II (Contemporary) Diplomatic Discourses
9. 5 Configuring Diplomatic Office and Activity: The Literature on the Ambassador 87
10. 6 Diplomacy in Early Modern Literature 103
11. 7 Art and Diplomacy 123
12. III Development of European Diplomacy – an Overview
13. 8 Representing Spiritual and Secular Interests: The Development of Papal Diplomacy 143
14. 9 City States, Principalities and All That: The Diversity of Italian Diplomacy (c. 1400 – c. 1800) 167
15. 10 Continuous Change, Final Discontinuities: the Development of French Diplomacy 187
16. 11 Spanish and Portuguese Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe 205
17. 12 Dutch Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century: An Introduction 221
18. 13 Evolution and Revolution in British Diplomacy 253
19. 14 The Diplomatic Service in Early Modern Russia 271
20. 15 Early Modern Ottoman Diplomacy (1520s–1780s): A Brief Outline 291
21. 16 No Country for New Diplomatic History: Diplomacy within the Holy Roman Empire 307
22. 17 Between the Great Powers: Early Modern Swiss Diplomacy 333
23. 18 Scandinavian Diplomacy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period 353
24. 19 Between the East and the West: The Evolution of Diplomacy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland 373
25. IV Spheres of Diplomatic Interactions
26. 20a European Diplomacy and the Early Modern Court 403
27. 20b The Ottoman Court as a Special Venue for European Diplomacy 419
28. 20c Rome as a Space of Diplomatic Interactions in the Early Modern Age 431
29. 21 Spheres of Diplomatic Interactions: Towns 447
30. 22 A Diplomatic Sphere of lts Own: Early Modern Peace Congresses 465
31. 23 Diets as a Sphere of Diplomatic Interaction 483
32. V Diplomatic Actors
33. 24 Princes, Republics, Towns, Trading Organisations: A Broad Spectrum of Sending Institutions 509
34. 25 Diplomatic Actors: Social Profile, Education and Careers 527
35. 26 Women and Diplomacy in the Early Modern Period 541
36. 27 Early Modern Consuls as Agents of Diplomacy 559
37. VI Diplomacy in Practice
38. 28 Diplomatic Ceremonial in Early Modern Europe 579
39. 29 Clientele and Patronage in Early Modern Diplomacy 593
40. 30 Language and Diplomatic Culture in the Early Modern Period 613
41. 31 Diplomatic Reporting: Negotiating the Truth in Westphalia and Beyond 631
42. 32 Acquisition of Information and Espionage 657
43. 33 Material Exchanges: Gifts, Tribute and Corruption 673
44. 34 The Finances of Non-Permanent Diplomacy 693
45. 35 Conflict Management in the Early Modern Period: Mediating and Safeguarding Treaties 707
46. 36 Theatrical Negotiations: Performance and Festive Culture in Early Modern Diplomacy 725
47. 37 Cultural Transfer in Ottoman-European Diplomacy: The Case of Sweden 1600 – 1800 745
48. 38 Emotions in Early Modern Diplomacy 763
49. VII Epilogue
50. 39 A World of Pandas, GIFs and Costumes: Early Modern Diplomacy from a Public History Perspective 783
51. VIII Appendix
52. 40 Selective Bibliography of Primary Sources and Editions 801
53. Index 807