Early Modern Diplomacy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/historikerinnen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>historikerinnen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/earlymodern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>earlymodern</span></a></span> </p><p>Secondly, luxury good and food played an important part as gifts in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/emdiplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emdiplomacy</span></a>. Gift-giving was an essential part of symbolic communication that helped establish and maintain relationships, but also express status and hierarchies. Giving and receiving gifts was expected, although there could be a fine line between gift-giving and supposed bribery. <br>If you want to know more about it, we can recommend the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/handbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handbook</span></a> article by Mark Häberlein (for its introduction on this channel you have to be patient a bit longer).</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-035" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-</span><span class="invisible">035</span></a></p><p>(3/)</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MaterialCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaterialCulture</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/giftGiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>giftGiving</span></a></p>