Today is International Day of Women in Diplomacy! #emdiplomacy was by no means an all male affaire. Women played a central role not only in mainting contacts to the queen's court and other female actors. They could also directly take part in negotiations, as the example of the Ladies' Peace of Cambrai (1529) shows. Here Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated for the Emperor and the king of France respectively.
If you want to know more, have a look at the #handbook article by Carolyn James who talks about female diplomatic actors.
Today’s #handbook author is none other than our wonderful co-editor @dorotheegoetze.
Goetze is Assistant Professor at the Midsweden University in Sundsvall. If you ask her herself, she is not an historian of #emdiplomacy, but does constitutional history and early modern peace research with a special focus on the #HolyRomanEmpire and the Baltic region. Thus, she brings different perspectives into the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory.
She publishes extensively in German, Swedish and English, e.g. this #openaccess article in English on hospitality and the Riga capitulation in 1710. (2/7)
His monograph focusses on #emdiplomacy under Selim I. So who could be better than Işıksel for writing the #handbook article on the development of Ottoman #diplomacy?! (3/7)
Although it is already Friday, we do not want to conclude this week without introducing another #emdiplomacy#handbook chapter.
The next author to enter the stage is Maria Petrova who is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World History at the Russian Academy of Sciences:
Having published broadly on Russian #diplomacy towards Austria and the Holy Roman Empire, Petrova is one of the leading experts in the field. See e.g. her study on the appearance of Russian #diplomats at the Imperial Diet in Regensburg (2/4)
#emdiplomacy was a multilingual affair. An #emdiplomat who could speak several languages had a clear advantage - not the least because he could thereby show equal respect to different parties, as this example by @dbellingradt shows. (1/2)
Alexander Koller is deputy director at the DHI Rome and we couldn’t have found anyone more suitable to write the article on papal #diplomacy for the #handbook. He has published extensively on Italian and German relations in the 16th and 17th c. His special interest being the papacy. He even edited two volumes of the reports of the nuncios.
After our special on female #emdiplomacy scholars for #WomensHistoryMonth and a little break we continue our introduction of the #handbook authors and their articles with the third section that focusses on the development of #earlymodern#diplomacy in different European countries.
For the #handbook, Natour tackles an even wider topic: the relation between #art and #diplomacy. She stresses the close but complicated relationship between (visual) art and #emdiplomacy. Diplomacy needed visualisation and art was one medium of communicating hierarchy, power and political messages. (3/7)
When discussing #earlymodern European diplomacy, it is important to widen the perspective and look beyond Europe. This helps to understand #emdiplomacy in its diversity and counteract the classical #eurocentrism. For the @emdiplomacy#handbook Birgit Tremml-Werner has taken up the global perspective.
#NewDiplomaticHistory is currently a very lively field of research, especially with regard to #emdiplomacy. If you want to know more about how it developed, have a look into the @emdiplomacy#handbook and the overview Julia Gebke is giving on its development.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the #emdiplomacy handbook! 🎉
Neither the pitfalls of the overheated academic system nor a pandemic could stop our wonderful authors and us from completing this project. After four years in the making the #earlymodern#diplomacy#handbook was finally published on New Year’s Eve 2023. What a great way to end the project and the old year!
We are over the moon that this book turned out as huge and pink as we wished it to be. A big thank you to our authors, the members of the editorial board as well as our publisher for their cooperation and commitment.
I love this #emdiplomacy meme by @emdiplomacy . It would have made a great cover for the upcoming #handbook! But our reasons for staying pictureless are even better. You want to know more? You just have to wait only a few more weeks until #handbook publication day!
The #emdiplomacy#handbook index is back with our publisher. Although making an #index can be revealing (who is mentioned most? Which concepts are most prominent? Were all #earlymodern popes mentioned?), it is definitely not my favoured part of the #LifesOfTheEditors .