Beyond Ambassadors

Consuls, Missionaries, and Spies in Premodern Diplomacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43884-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Rulers & Elites

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ebben, Maurits A

Sicking, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Table

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.