Early Modern Diplomacy

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What has all this to do with the Peace of Westphalia?

The peace treaties contain provisions on the restitution of war booty such as archive materials and movable property (Art. 16,15 Instrumentum Pacis Osnabrugensis). As libraries were movable property, they therefore actually should have been […]

There are many famous examples of looted books and libraries from the Thirty Years’ War.

The Bibliotheca Palatina, for example, was located in Heidelberg until 1623 and one of the most important German Renaissance libraries. It was seized when Catholic troops conquered Electoral Palatine and […]

As war booty, libraries and books could even increase their conquerors’ social and cultural capital.

Looted libraries and books bore witness of their conquerors’ brave deeds. Additionally, they testified on the looters’ fine education which allowed them to identify valuable books and could add […]

Libraries and especially princely and religious libraries were a highly sought after war booty, not only during the Thirty Years’ War.

This was not so much due to their material value but their social and cultural capital if one uses Bourdieu’s terminology. Libraries did not solely accumulate […]

Today, on 24 October, is German Library Day. On this day, 377 years ago, the Westphalian peace treaties were signed which ended the Thirty Years' War.

On the one hand, this is just a coincidence in dates. The Germany’s national Library Day commemorates the foundation of the first German public […]

"In this sense, the approximately 800-page handbook edited by Dorothée Goetze and Lena Oetzel can be understood as both a testimony to maturity and a synopsis of research and historiographical evaluation
of early modern diplomacy.
However, the editors' introduction makes it very clear that this […]

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Affiche de la journée d'études. Le visuel est un buste de femme portant une coiffe de perles qui enveloppe toute sa chevelure. Son cou est enserré dans un collier de perles à multiples rangs.

Voici le programme du jour!
Diplomaties de cour, diplomaties des femmes, du cadre officiel aux missions officieuses. Une journée d'études pour compléter l'exposition "Excellences!", dans l'auditorium du château de Versailles.
#Diplomatie #ÉpoqueModerne #Histodons #EarlyModern #EMDiplomacy

We have to admit that a giraffe is not exactly a common pet - but who knows...

Whether you are a diplomat or not, we would love to see pictures of our pet(s)! (4/4)

#HistoryOfDiplomacy #AnimalStudies #emdiplomacy #diplomacy #diplomat #History #histodons #pet

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Did you spot the giraffe in the painting?

In fact, Giorgio Riello argues that “it was not Lorenzo’s real animal but its representation in Ghirlandaio’s fresco that kept the visual imagination of giraffes alive in Europe”.

This points us to another topic for another day: the visual […]

Photograph (colour): Domenico Ghirlandaio's painting "Adoration of the magi"

But the afterlife of the giraffe was much longer. It had been the first giraffe in Europe since the 13th century and it remained so for many centuries coming. Thus, one should not wonder that it was commemorated in literature and paintings, such as the […]

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We want to follow up last week’s thread on diplomatic gift-giving with a very impressive example: the fate of a giraffe

In 1487, Lorenzo de Medici received the giraffe as a gift by Sultan Qā’itbāy of Egypt who thereby showed his support in Lorenzo’s fight against the Ottomans.

The animal was […]

@mschfr @histodons This is quite impressive.

But what do you do with all these exquisite gifts, when they are not for personal use?

They are registered and kept in official collection.

The German government and the government of the German federal states occasionally auction them off as part of a raffle.

Perhaps you want to take a look […]

Gift giving is not only key to early modern #diplomacy, but to modern, too.

Head of states frequently exchange presents, but these were of course not for themselves as individuals.

Moreover, the importation of state gifts is even regulated by customs law. The German customs authority […]

Drawing (Black/White): Profile of an elephant. The head points to the left hand side. On the elephant's back sits a person in 16th century clothes holding a stick in the right hand. Another person in 16th century clothes holds the trunk of the elephant.

A special kind of gifts were animals, especially exotic animals were very popular, such as expensive horses, elephants, rhinos, leopards, giraffes etc.

But animals were risky presents, as they had of course a mind of their own. How did it look like, if a […]

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Gift-giving played a central role in early modern diplomacy. Gifts helped to communicate status and power and to initiate and stabilise alliances.

Häberlein explains the motives and intentions behind gift-giving, the political and cultural contexts of gift exchange, the actors involved, the […]

It’s Sunday and we do not want to conclude this week without introducing you to our author Mark Häberlein.

He is Professor for Modern History at Bamberg University. He published extensively on early modern cities, knowledge, languages and material culture.

Especially interesting for us is his […]

Photograph (colour): First page of the article on Material Exchanges: Gifts, Tribute and Corruption by Mark Häberlein

33 Mark Häberlein: Material Exchanges: Gifts, Tribute and Corruption

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

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@emdiplomacy is back and wants to know what you want to read in the coming months!

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Weil man das gar nicht häufig genug "bewerben" kann: Unser Online-Seminar zur #Wissenschaftsfreiheit ( @dhi-paris.fr, @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, @sciencespo.bsky.social, @cieraparis.bsky.social) startet morgen (2.10.), 18 Uhr: www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindet...

As a scholar of early modern European diplomacy and peace history Dorothée learned a lot about early 20th century East Asia. Moreover, it was interesting to get more insights into research about Japan and Korea. At the same time the different perspectives from scholars of International Relations […]

@dorotheegoetze 's own contribution was somewhat of a final comment to bring in her own expertise. She emphasised the impact of changing regional and global frameworks for politics in East Asia and the peace negotiations. Dorothée also pointed out new research perspectives: Which concepts of […]

The programme of this two-day workshop was divided into three thematic blocks which included historical as well as IR perspectives:

Participants discussed the question of Korean independence in the context of the Portsmouth conference. The second panel was dedicated to modern East Asia and […]

The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on 5 September 1905 and concluded the Russo-Japanese War. The treaty was mediated by US-president Theodore Roosevelt. It acknowledged Japan’s hegemony over Korea and pathed the way for the Japanese annexation of Korea five years later.

Research on this peace […]

In September our co-editor @dorotheegoetze had quite an exciting (and somewhat challenging) task to fulfil:

She was invited to give a paper on diplomacy and peripheral states at a workshop on Korea and the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905. This was an exciting experience but also challenging for […]

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