Early Modern DiplomacyJonas Bechtold/Guido Braun: Diets as a Sphere of Diplomatic Interaction (1/7)
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-025
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From #peacecongresses we move on to assemblies of the estates as diplomatic spheres. For this we were able to pair up to scholars with different expertises: Jonas Bechtold from Bonn university and Guido Braun from the university of Mulhouse! (2/7)
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Bechtold is writing his PhD thesis on English diplomats at Imperial diets in the 16th cent. Braun is professor for modern history in Mulhouse. He published extensively on #emdiplomacy and #peacemaking. He also edited a volume of the French correspondences from the #WestphalianPeaceCongress for the APW. More recently, his attention turned from #earlymodern #peacecongresses to the perpetual Imperial diet.
So, who could be better than these two to write the #handbook article on diets al diplomatic spheres! (3/7)
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When talking about Imperial diets as diplomatic spheres we have to differentiate between the non-permanent diets of the 16th c that were summoned by the Emperor and could last several months on the one hand and the perpetual diet that met permanently in Regensburg since 1663 on the other hand. (4/7)
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Bechtold and Braun describe the Imperial diets as a “dual sphere of non-permanent multilateral diplomatic interaction”, meaning on the one hand they where a place for internal diplomatic interaction between the members of the #HRE. On the other hand, the diets were news hubs and attracted the attention of foreign powers who sent their diplomats to the diet in order to gather news and advance their own interests.
Moreover, especially in the 17th and 18th c foreign powers held territories within the #HRE making their diplomats not only visitors to the diet but members. E.g. Sweden held several votes in the college of princes. (5/7)
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Because of ceremonial difficulties for foreign diplomats and other points of conflicts Braun stress that the perpetual diet could not fully develop its supranational dimension despite Regensburg being an important international meeting point. (6/7)