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Secondly, luxury good and food played an important part as gifts in #emdiplomacy. 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.
If you want to know more about it, we can recommend the #handbook article by Mark Häberlein (for its introduction on this channel you have to be patient a bit longer).

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-035

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@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

Of course #emdiplomats and #emdiplomacysSources played an important part in these discussions. Firstly, they often acted as cultural brokers, as they collected and obtained special objects, delicacies and other luxury goods for their rulers. For our #handbook Elisabeth Natour talked about the relationship between art and diplomacy and the role of #emdiplomats as cultural brokers. (2/)

https://hcommons.social/@emdiplomacy/111997262704877738

@FAU @womenknowhistory

For the #handbook Félicité asks the fundamental question: Who was allowed to sent out #emdiplomats? She explains that the actor-centred approach of #NDH has led to the neglect of the institutional side of diplomacy in favor of diplomatic actors. But in order to understand #emdiplomacy we also must pay attention to the “sending institutions”. (2/5)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #diplomacy #earlymodern #history
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As handbook editors and authors of this account it was and is always important to us to show #emdiplomacy in its diversity. This means different forms of #emdiplomacy in different European countries as well as different diplomatic actors. Therefore, we introduce you to black #emdiplomats last month.
Moreover, for us this also means giving researchers from different countries a voice: either by introducing you to their work or during the editing process by including them in the #handbook. For us this is fundamental and connected, because only by listening to different (academic and historical) voices we can understand the complexity of (historical and current) societies. But again, we can only do this, when we have academic freedom. (4/5)

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Bechtold is writing his PhD thesis on English diplomats at Imperial diets in the 16th cent. Braun is professor for modern history in Mulhouse. He published extensively on #emdiplomacy and #peacemaking. He also edited a volume of the French correspondences from the #WestphalianPeaceCongress for the APW. More recently, his attention turned from #earlymodern #peacecongresses to the perpetual Imperial diet.

So, who could be better than these two to write the #handbook article on diets al diplomatic spheres! (3/7)

@dorotheegoetze @histodons

If you want to know more, here is the link to our thread introducing Birgit Tremml-Werner's #handbook article. (2/2)

https://hcommons.social/@emdiplomacy/111839963725136924

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Today, we want to introduce you to one of our editors: @LenaOetzel She just completed her habilitation on the #WestphalianPeaceCongress and is now preparing the book for publication, so stay tuned!

For the #handbook, she summarises her extensive expertise on #earlymodern #peace #congresses as spheres of #diplomacy in an article. (2/6)

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What is interesting about his career, is that he served both the Emperor and the elector of Mayence at different times. It was his experience in Imperial affairs, which he had acquired not least at the #PeaceCongressOfWestphalia, that made him especially valuable as an #emdiplomat. In fact, at the Reichsdeputationstag he met other diplomats who had also been in Westphalia. The issue of community-building between #emdiplomats, especially between those within the #HRR is another topic that needs more research.

If you want to learn more not only about Cratz von Scharffenstein, but about #emdiplomacy within the #HRR we can recommend the #handbook article by our editor @dorotheegoetze: (3/3)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-016

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Such accounts as Mehmed Said’s Sefaretname are important #emdiplomacysSources, especially for all interested in process of cultural transfer, as they help to counter the Eurocentric perspective of #diplomaticHistory.

If you want to learn more about Mehmed Said’s travel to Sweden we recommend the study of Joachim Östlund Vid världens ände (in Swedish)

https://nordicacademicpress.se/product/vid-varldens-ande/

If you don’t read Swedish, you can have a look at Östlund’s #handbook article, where he gives you a few glimpses to Mehmed Said’s accounts. (3/3)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-039

For the #handbook Cziráki will look at the High Porte as a place of European diplomatic interactions; a topic that gets lots of attention by current research.

She describes the High Porte as an international diplomatic sphere where #diplomats from many different countries of different status met. Thus, there were not only representaives of the #Emperor or the king of #France, but of territories that were tributary to the #OttomanEmpire. (3/4)

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#earlymodern #emdiplomacy #history #histodons #CourtStudies #court

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For the #handbook he pays double duty: He wrote the article on diplomatic ceremonial as well as on #earlymodern #courts as sphere of #emdiplomacy. Today, we want to introduce to you the article on the early modern court as a diplomatic sphere. (3/9)