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A problem, when it comes to researching the financial side of #emdiplomacy, is that the sources often are distorted as well as incomplete, because of separate budgets or because specific services were not paid for at all or in another way. Account books do not necessarily show the total expenses of a mission, but they do provide information about the daily life of the #emdiplomats. Not only the type and amount of expenses for housing, food, travel and mail are evident, but also how they were handled at court. (6/8)

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While older research in the wake of Mattingly’s seminal study on #Renaissance #diplomacy has ignored #women role in #emdiplomacy (as well as those of other informal actors), recent research has discovered the importance of women as diplomatic agents.

One reason why women as diplomatic actors have been ignored for so long, is that they seldom feature in the official diplomatic #correspondences. For understanding their role, one has to turn to other sources such as family letters. #emdiplomacysSources

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In order to analyse the diplomatic activities of the members of the #emdiplomat’s household, research has to shift focus with regard to #emdiplomacysSources. It is not enough to evaluate diplomatic file material, which rarely mentions these individuals. Instead, research must increasingly resort to first person documents. (10/10)

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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. (2/7)

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

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We are well informed on Lauck’s journey to #Augsburg and his stay and activities at the #ImperialDiet in 1582 due to his diary, a unique source which provides insights not only in traveling activities as well as the work and duties of a princely representative at a diet. Moreover, we can take part of Lauck’s every day-life, thinking and perception of the world. For more information see:

Maximilian Lanzinner, Warten auf den Reichstag. Lebenswelt und politische Kommunikation des hessischen Gesandten Dr. David Lauck im Jahr 1582, in: Michael Rohrschneider / Arno Strohmeyer, Hg., Bayern – Heiliges Römisches Reich – Friedensstiftung. Ausgewählte Abhandlungen zur frühneuzeitlichen Geschichte, Münster 2023, 283–310. (4/4)

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Only a few months after this pompous celebration Etherge was recalled from Regensburg and ordered to go to France due to his loyalty to king James II where he died in 1692.

If you want to know about George Etherege and how he received his time at the Imperial Diet for example, you can trace his thoughts in his letterbooks which were edited in two editions by Sibyl Rosenfeld in 1928 and Frederick Bracher in 1992. (4/4)

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We don’t have a portrait of Thomas Baker, but he have his diplomatic diary Thomas Baker. Here he described his activities in great detail, often also complaining, about the hardships of his life as a consul. The purpose of this diary is not quite clear: was it for his private use only, or had it an official function. For modern historians it is a fascinating source that gives insights into an #emdiplomats life.
Luckily there’s an edition of the diary, so you can get to know Thomas Baker yourself. (3/3)

https://archive.org/details/piracydiplomacyi0000bake/mode/2up

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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

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Barbaro’s work was one of the first to focus on permanent #emdiplomacy instead of ad-hoc diplomacy. In the discourse on #emdiplomacy in the following centuries his treatise held a central position being referred to again and again.
If you are now curious, there’s a new translation into English. (4/4)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ermolao-barbaros-on-celibacy-3-and-4-and-on-the-duty-of-the-ambassador-9781350398931/

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