@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 @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

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

The concept of finance in the early modern period is a very broad & the transition to gifts, bribery & corruption is rather fluid. So, we also recommend the article by Mark Häberlein on gift-giving. (4/8)

https://hcommons.social/@emdiplomacy/115360255960220982

#EarlyModernEurope #economicHistory #emdiplomacy #giftGiving

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

Surprisingly, the question of the financial side of emdiplomacy has received little attention in research apart from the trope of the poorly paid diplomat or the prince who could not send his own envoy for financial reasons. (3/8)

#emdiplomacy #earlymodern #EarlyModernEurope #history #economicHistory

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

In his article Osborne describes diplomatic ceremonial as an important part of a ”holistic package of diplomacy that utilised space and material culture alongside actual protocols”.
Diplomatic ceremonial as strange as it might sometimes appear for modern eyes, was a tool for communicating and ordering interaction – for diplomats at foreign courts as well as between the diplomats themselves. (3/6)

#emdiplomacy #ceremonial #EarlyModernEurope #court