@histodons

Over the #earlymodern period different practices to manage conflicts and guarantee peace agreements were established that Laufs and Wenzel will introduce to us. Thus, illustrating the ingenuity but also the limits of #emdiplomacy. (6/6)

#peacemaking #peace #EarlyModernEurope #conflictmanagement

@histodons

But diplomats did not only try to settle conflicts, they tried to prevent them! Peace treaties and truces were provided with treaty sureties that aimed at safeguarding the agreements. Negotiating these sureties could be difficult and conflictual, too. (5/6)

#emdiplomacy #EarlyModernEurope #peacemaking #peace #earlymodern

@histodons

Together Laufs and Wenzel tackle the important question of conflict management. How did #emdiplomats deal with conflicts? What practices were established?

Key to #earlymodern conflict management were mediation and arbitration as practices with a long tradition going back to the Middle Ages. Here, a third party tried to mediate and help find a compromise between the conflicting parties. (4/6)

#emdiplomacy #history #EarlyModernEurope #mediation #peacemaking

@histodons

Christian Wenzel works the universities of Marburg and Duisburg-Essen. He works on #peace treaties and breaches of agreements and ideas of security.

His PhD thesis on security in the debates of the French wars of religion was recently published and is also available #openaccess! (3/6)

https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/513

#emdiplomacy #earlymodern #earlymodernFrance #history

@histodons

Today we want to introduce to you one of our #emdiplomacy dream teams: Markus Laufs and Christian Wenzel!

Markus Laufs currently works at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, where he’s part of the team that reconceptualise the permanent exhibition and is responsible for the late Middle Ages and the early modern periond. His PhDthesis on practices of mediation at #earlymodern #peacecongresses is available as #openaccess (2/6)

https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/geschichte-der-fruehen-neuzeit/57711/in-viam-pacis?c=1541

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

Pühringer highlights the need for more and comparative research on #emdiplomacy’s finances which can reveal completely new connections and networks that could help to explain other ambiguities. (8/8)

#emdiplomacy #economicHistory #earlymodern #history

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

Often the agreed amounts were only paid out after the mission’s completion, and the travel and subsistence expenses, which were often agreed upon separately, were carefully checked and settled, and in some cases even refused.

For many #emdiplomats, debts were not uncommon at the place of assignment; especially for bourgeois representatives in lower-ranking positions, diplomatic activity could mean financial ruin. (7/8)

#emdiplomacy #EarlyModernEurope #economicHistory