Early Modern Diplomacy#emdiplomacyAdventCalendar (24/24)
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#emdiplomacyAdventCalendar (23/24)
#emdiplomats had to be flexible, even when celebrating Christmas. The Protestant diplomats in Osnabrück celebrated Christmas at the same date as the Catholics, although according to the Julian calendar it was not until 2 weeks from now.
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#emdiplomacyAdventCalendar (22/24)
This fascinating blog on #MentalHealth of modern #diplomats made us think about the mental health of #emdiplomats. They faced similar problems being far away from home for extended times in often stressful situations.
https://www.thelonelydiplomat.com/blog
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Today's #emdiplomacyAdventCalendar (21/24) has an #emdiplomacyReadingRecommendation for you:
#emdiplomacy involved a lot of different actors, including spies. One of the #emdiplomacy handbook authors Guido Braun, published a fascinating essay collection exploring the secret side of #emdiplomacy. (essays in English/French).
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Thea Lindquist@emdiplomacy shared #montypython’s Westphalia is today’s entry in the #emdiplomacyAdventCalendar. Where has this been the last half of my life?! I told a friend “that’s my dissertation in a nutshell”, and she observed “imagine if you could have submitted that as the abstract?” — Yes, let’s imagine that, or submitting it as much more! Humor and the human connection that comes with it are but one way the humanities can make a broader impact. Taking a page from Michael Palin, who read history 📖 @histodons
The Treaty of Westphalia
You always wondered, how #earlymodern #peace-negotiations looked like? The #emdiplomacyAdventCalendar highly recommends #montypython’s Westphalia! It almost certainly must have taken place like this 😉 (20/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY
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The Treaty of Westphalia
Treaty of Westphalia
Giorgio Riello: Spot the Giraffe: The Material Culture of Animals Found, Lost and Painted. In: Tina Asmussen, Eva Brugger, Maike Christadler, Anja Rathmann-Lutz, Anna Reimann, Carla Roth, Sarah-Maria Schober, Ina Serif (ed.): Materialized Histories. Eine Festschrift 2.0, 17/05/2021, https://mhistories.hypotheses.org/?p=1788. (6/6)
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Spot the Giraffe: The Material Culture of Animals Found, Lost and Painted
English AbstractPDF The distracted tourist might be forgiven for not paying much attention to what is represented in The Adoration of the Magi, one of more than twenty large-scale frescos decorating the Tornabuoni Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. The famous Italian painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and his workshop worked tirelessly between […]
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 representation of #emdiplomacy. (5/6)
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 painting by Giorgio Vasari (1556 / 1558). There are many other figurative representations of this giraffe, such as the famous frescos in the Tornabuoni Chapel by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1485-1490). (4/6)
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 presented to the Florentine republic by the Egyptian ambassadors at the market place so that everyone could marvel the giraffe. Unfortunately, it died only a few months after its arrival breaking its neck while being transported in its box. (3/6)
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