Beyond Ambassadors

Consuls, Missionaries, and Spies in Premodern Diplomacy

Maurits A. Ebben, Louis Sicking (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-43884-2 (ISBN)

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This volume focuses on the question of how and why non-state actors - consuls, missionaries, and spies - could play a role in premodern diplomatic relations. It highlights their multiple loyalties, their volatility, and the porous boundaries of diplomatic activity.

Because of the overarching shadow of ‘the state’ in all things diplomatic, traditional diplomatic history has neglected the study of any actors in foreign relations other than state diplomats, such as ambassadors. This volume focuses on the question of how and why consuls, missionaries, and spies not formally tied to the state or a prince could play a role in premodern diplomatic relations. It highlights their multiple loyalties, their volatility, and the porous boundaries of diplomatic activity. Historical research on non-state actors – in the context of the so-called new diplomatic history – is all the more urgent as it demonstrates their undeniably significant contributions to the formation of Europe’s international relations.

Contributors are: Maurits Ebben, Dante Fedele, Alan Marshall, Jacques Paviot, Felicia Roșu, Jean-Baptiste Santamaria, Louis Sicking, and John Watkins.

Maurits Ebben(1955) is a lecturer at Leiden University, Ph.D. Leiden University 1996. He is currently working on a new volume entitled Ambassadors, Consuls and Commerce: The Dutch Diplomatic Service in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1648–1700. Louis Sicking is the Aemilius Papinianus professor of history of public international law at VU University and lecturer in history at the University of Leiden. He is presently working on a book on conflict management in pre-modern Atlantic Europe.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Maurits Ebben and Louis Sicking

PART 1

Theoretical Challenges

1 Premodern Non-State Agency: the Theoretical, Historical, and Legal Challenge

John Watkins

2 Plurality of Diplomatic Agents in Premodern Literature on the Ambassador

Dante Fedele

PART 2

Consuls

3 Space, Agency, and Conflict Management in the Late Medieval Baltic: Urban Colonies and Representatives of Hanse Towns at Scania

Louis Sicking

4 Your High and Mighty Lordships’ Most Humble Servants: Dutch Consuls and the States General’s Diplomacy in Spain, 1648–1661

Maurits Ebben

PART 3

Missionaries

5 The Mendicant Friars: Actors in Diplomatic Encounters with the Mongols

Jacques Paviot

6 The New Indies, the Desired Indies: Antonio Possevino and the Jesuits between Diplomacy and Missionarism in Northeastern Europe, 1577–1587

Felicia Ro?u

PART 4

Spies

7 Secrets, Diplomatics, and Spies in Late Medieval France and in the Burgundian State: Parallel Practices and Undercover Operations

Jean-Baptiste Santamaria

8 ‘Secret Wheeles’: Clandestine Information, Espionage, and European Intelligence

Alan Marshall

Index of Names

Index of Names

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Rulers & Elites ; 19
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	475 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-43884-X / 900443884X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-43884-2 / 9789004438842
Zustand	Neuware