BOOK: Cristina BRAVO LOZANO & Antonio ÁLVAREZ-OSSORIO ALVARIÑO (eds.), Los embajadores. Representantes de la soberanía, garantes del equilibrio, 1659-1748 (Madrid: Marcial Pons, Historia, 2021), 472 p., ISBN 9788417945497, € 32,3

 

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Book abstract:

La figura del embajador es considerada una de las más destacadas en la cultura cortesana en la Edad Moderna. Los estudios sobre la diplomacia vienen experimentado un notable dinamismo en las últimas décadas. Trascendiendo su práctica negociadora, el papel ejercido por estos legados se dirigió hacia la representación de la soberanía y los intereses de príncipes, repúblicas e, incluso, corporaciones provinciales, y a la búsqueda del mantenimiento de hegemonías en nombre de un supuesto equilibrio entre potencias. Desde distintas perspectivas, tomando como ámbito de referencia la monarquía de España, esta obra aborda la singularidad de tan polifacético ministro para arrojar luz sobre su protagonismo en la transformación de Europa y su proyección en otros continentes durante la transición de los siglos XVII y XVIII. A lo largo de sus contribuciones se destacarán su «cursus honorum» y la instrumentalización del rango como plataforma de ascenso político y social, los valores, virtudes y obligaciones inherentes en el cargo, las estrategias y desempeño de sus funciones ordinarias en las embajadas y las esferas palatinas —con particular énfasis en la mediación de reinas y damas de la corte—, la contribución de sus gestiones en el restablecimiento de la paz en el marco sucesorio, la dimensión cultural y las vías formales e informales de autorrepresentación.

Table of contents:

Introducción, Cristina Bravo Lozano y Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño.-I. EL CURSUS HONORUM DIPLOMÁTICO, ¿PROFESIONALIZACIÓN DEL ETHOS O MEDIO DE ASCENSO POLÍTICO?-Diplomático y publicista: François-Paul de Lisola en la corte de Madrid (1665-1666), Charles-Édouard Levillain.-De conductor de embajadores a privado: Fernando de Valenzuela y las redes diplomáticas en la corte de Mariana de Austria, Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño.-Viena-Madrid-Hungría: la mediación de los embajadores en las concesiones de la Orden del Toisón en el siglo XVII , Tibor Martí.-La embajada española del conde de Lobkowicz: de enviado extraordinario a embajador ordinario en la corte de Madrid (1689-1691), Michaela Buriánková.-El embajador de Luis XIV en la corte de Madrid, ¿un ideal del servicio al rey?, Guillaume Hanotin.-Los representantes de la nación francesa en Madrid: diplomacia, comercio y corporaciones nacionales (1709-1721), Carlos Infantes Buil.-II. NEGOCIANDO LA SUCESIÓN, BUSCANDO EL EQUILIBRIO.-Tres perfiles políticos, tres realidades sociales, Lucien Bély.-Un diplomático comprometido y controvertido: Louis-Toussaint de Brancas-Céreste, embajador francés en España (1713 y 1714), según la correspondencia entre Luis XIV y Felipe V, José Manuel de Bernardo Ares.-Embajadores y damas de la corte. La construcción de una red de poder internacional entre Madrid, París y Turín en la transición de finales del Seiscientos, Elena Riva.-El cardenal Francesco Acquaviva d’Aragona, ministro de Felipe V en Roma, Virginia León Sanz.-Un nuevo peso en la balanza: la incorporación de Rusia a la negociación del sistema del equilibrio europeo (1717-1721), Núria Sallés Vilaseca.-Los embajadores de la reina. Isabel de Farnesio y el gobierno de las Dos Sicilias, Pablo Vázquez Gestal.-III. SOBERANOS Y CORPORACIONES. LA DIPLOMACIA PROVINCIAL.-Representación y negociación. Agencias y embajadores provinciales de los parlamentos vascos en el Madrid del Seiscientos, Alberto Angulo Morales.-El reconocimiento político de una nueva institución: los representantes del Brazo Militar de Cataluña en la corte (1660-1714), Eduard Martí-Fraga.-Defender el Stato, promocionar al patriciado. La diplomacia provincial lombarda en las cortes de los Habsburgo durante la guerra de Sucesión (1706-1714), Roberto Quirós Rosado.-IV. RETÓRICA VISUAL Y CULTURA ESCRITA. LA AUTORREPRESENTACIÓN DEL EMBAJADOR BARROCO.-La diplomacia imaginada. Pinturas de negociadores en el siglo XVII, Diana Carrió-Invernizzi.-Retórica visual y persuasión política. La representación del embajador barroco: el caso del obispo Luis Crespí y Borja, Álvaro Pascual Chenel.-La aguda pluma del embajador. Ingenio y cultura política en la correspondencia entre los ministros españoles en Londres y La Haya (1675-1699), Cristina Bravo Lozano.-«Peregrino en su patria, va a peregrinar a las extrañas». La memoria del yo en la embajada del conde de Assumar ante el archiduque Carlos (1705-1713), David Martín Marcos.-Relación de autores. 

(more information here) 

VIDEO: Guillaume CALAFAT, Pourquoi faire l’histoire du drapeau pirate ? (Arte)

 

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Author interview with L'Histoire

Guillaume Calafat : Avec l’équipe de « Faire l’histoire », nous avons d’abord eu l’idée d’une émission consacrée au drapeau, un objet à la fois familier et télégénique. Il nous est cependant vite apparu qu’un seul épisode ne pourrait suffire pour aborder la variété des usages sociaux et politiques des étendards à travers les siècles. Nous nous heurtions en effet aux pans nombreux et complexes de l’étude des drapeaux et des pavillons, la vexillologie, qui nécessite des compétences allant de l’héraldique aux arts de la guerre, de l’histoire de la formation des États-nations jusqu’à l’analyse sociohistorique des institutions et des fêtes (défilés, commémorations, manifestations, événements sportifs…). A l’inverse, se concentrer sur le drapeau d’un seul pays nous semblait réducteur et arbitraire.

Read more here. 

BOOK: Dominique BAUER & Randall C.H. LESAFFER (eds.), History, Casuistry and Custom in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). Collected Studies [Legal History Library, 51; Studies in the History of International Law, 19] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2021), viii + 160 p. ISBN 9789004464803, € 93

 

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Book abstract:

The thought and work of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) is widely acknowledged as the culmination point of the contribution of the theologians and jurists of the so-called School of Salamanca to the development of modern Western law. This collection of studies on the legal work of Suárez explores some of his major forays into the law. Both his theoretical system-building as well as his interventions in practical questions are covered. Next to discussions on the nature of law and its different categorisations, they extend to various subbranches of the law including family law, property law, the law of obligations, criminal law and international law.

Contributors:

Dominique Bauer, Daniel Schwartz, João Manuel Azevedo Alexandrino Fernandes, Lisa Brunori, Wim Decock, Bart Wauters, Gaëlle Demelemestre, Jean-Paul Coujou, and Cintia Faraco.  

Read more with Brill (DOI 10.1163/9789004464810) 

BOOK: Daniel LEE, The Right of Sovereignty. Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations [The History and Theory of International Law] (Oxford: OUP, 2021), 320 p. ISBN 9780198755531, 80 GBP

 

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Abstract:

Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. This book examines the origins of that principle in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596). As the author argues in this study, Bodin's most lasting theoretical contribution was his thesis that sovereignty must be conceptualized as an indivisible bundle of legal rights constitutive of statehood. While these uniform 'rights of sovereignty' licensed all states to exercise numerous exclusive powers, including the absolute power to 'absolve' and release its citizens from legal duties, they were ultimately derived from, and therefore limited by, the law of nations. The book explores Bodin's creative synthesis of classical sources in philosophy, history, and the medieval legal science of Roman and canon law in crafting the rules governing state-centric politics. The Right of Sovereignty is the first book in English on Bodin's legal and political theory to be published in nearly a half-century and surveys themes overlooked in modern Bodin scholarship: empire, war, conquest, slavery, citizenship, commerce, territory, refugees, and treaty obligations. It will interest specialists in political theory and the history of modern political thought, as well as legal history, the philosophy of law, and international law.

On the author:

Daniel Lee is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in political theory, the history of political thought, and jurisprudence. He is the author of Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought (OUP, 2016) and A Division of the Whole Law (forthcoming with OUP).

(source: OUP) 

BOOK: Edward JONES CORREDERA, The Diplomatic Enlightenment. Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation [History of European Political and Constitutional Thought; 5] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2021), ISBN 978-90-04-46906-8

 

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Book abstract:

This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain’s role in the European balance of power. And while international law grew to provide a legal framework that could safeguard peace, Spanish officials, diplomats, and authors, hardened by the failure of Spanish diplomacy, sought instead to regulate international relations by drawing on investment, profit, and self-interest. The book shows, on the basis of new archival research, that the Diplomatic Enlightenment sought to turn the Spanish Empire into a space for closer political cooperation with other European and non-European states and empires.

Table of contents:

Preface 
Acknowledgements 

1 The Missing Century
 The Enlightenment, the Nation, and Modern Spain
 1 Introduction
 2 The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Enlightenment
 3 The Twentieth-Century View of the Absence of the Spanish Enlightenment
 4 Religion and the Spanish Political Elites
 5 The Diplomatic Enlightenment

2 Predicting War and Peace
 1 Introduction
 2 Spain, Europe, and Arbitrary Monarchy
 3 Crisis and Catharsis: The Dawn of the Early Spanish Enlightenment
 4 What News Do You Bring?
 5 Information Overload and Elite Political Debate

3 Investing in the Luces
 1 Introduction
 2 Shorting Diplomacy
 3 Representations of the Spanish Empire
 4 The Assembly of Public Trust
 5 Luces in the Mines
 6 The Seminary of Lawsuits: Law, Trade, and Corporations
 7 José Carvajal y Lancaster and the Arbitration of Europe
 8 Private Vices, Public Virtues, and Diplomatic Cooperation
 9 Coins, Corporations, China, and Europe
 10 The Naval Officer and the Aristocrat

4 Revolts and Returns
 Free Trade and the Fear of Independence
 1 Introduction
 2 Investing in a New Timepiece
 3 Mapping Reform in Enlightenment Europe
 4 Free Trade: The Farce of Independence and the Growth of Spanish Political Economic Debate
 5 The Perils of Emulation: Corporations and the Meaning of the Spanish Empire
 6 The Criticism of Carvajal’s Joint-Stock Companies

5 The Lever of the Balance of Power
 1 Introduction
 2 Iberia’s Role in Europe
 3 Borders and Trade
 4 Investing in Peace
 5 A Monarchy without a King

6 Carthage’s Contractors
 The Ends of the Spanish Empire
 1 Introduction
 2 The Grain Monopoly and the Voice of the People
 3 The Idea of the Nation: Outsourcing Propaganda and Colonisation
 4 Constitutionalism in the Spanish Empire and the International Order

7 Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

On the author:

Edward Jones Corredera is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge in 2020.

(see Brill's site: DOI 10.1163/9789004469099)

BOOK REVIEW: Wolfgang REINHARD (Freiburg im Breisgau) on Irene DINGEL et al. (eds.), Handbook of Peace in Early Modern Europe (Berlin: DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2021) (Sehepunkte, MAY 2021)

 

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First paragraph:

Ein Werk wie dieses war längst überfällig. Zwar wurde der Friede schon immer gepriesen und hat im 20. Jahrhundert moralisch sogar die Oberhand gewonnen. Der Krieg wurde verboten. Es gibt heute keine Kriegsminister mehr, sondern nur noch Verteidigungsminister und auch so gut wie keine ordnungsgemäß mit Kriegserklärung begonnenen und mit Friedensschluss beendeten Kämpfe alten Stils. Die Wirklichkeit ist freilich nichtsdestoweniger kriegerischer denn je. Auch die Wissenschaft interessiert sich demgemäß lieber für Krieg als für Frieden. Faktisch gilt eben immer noch die Feststellung von Nietzsches Zarathustra "der gute Krieg ist es, der jede Sache heiligt" (97). Sogar die Menschenrechte müssen heute den Krieg "heiligen". Anthropologisch gesehen ist es ja viel einfacher, einen Konflikt auszulösen und durchzufechten als ihn beizulegen und zu beenden. Entsprechend schwer tut sich die Friedensforschung mit der Gewalt und entsprechend verdienstvoll ist der Versuch dieses Buches, hier mit historischer Friedensforschung massiv wissenschaftlich gegenzusteuern.

Read the full review here.

See earlier on this blog for the book. 

ZOOM LECTURE: David ARMITAGE on "John Locke, Treaties and the Two Treatises of Government" (VUW Faculty of Law-VUW History Programme, 28 MAY)

 

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Abstract:

From the beginning of his public career almost to the end of his life, John Locke participated in a burgeoning contemporary culture of treaties. His lifetime almost exactly coincided with the emergence of a public culture of treaties in the late seventeenth century, exemplified by the proliferation of treaty collections, treaty prints and even treaty music. His early secretarial career involved him directly in treaty negotiations; his later administrative activities, especially in relation to English colonisation, regularly engaged him with treaty provisions. This paper argues that Locke's fifty-year interest in treaties and treaty-making can help to explain one of the enduring puzzles of his Second Treatise of Government: that is, why he separated the powers of government between the executive, the legislative and what he called, in a near-neologism, the "Federative," or "the Power of War and Peace, Leagues and Alliances, and all the Transactions, with all Persons and Communities without the Commonwealth". It concludes by inferring how Locke would have imagined that power, based on his decades-long knowledge and experience of the federative in practice.

Panel: 

Speaker: Professor David Armitage (Harvard University). Chair: Dr Valerie Wallace (VUW History) Comment: Professor Mark Hickford (VUW Law)

More information here. 

LECTURE (recorded): David ARMITAGE on intellectual history and treaties (London: LSE, 18 MAR 2021)

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Prof. David Armitage's lecture on treaties and intellectual history at LSE (announced earlier on this blog) has been recorded and rendered publicly available in MP3-format here.

ZOOM SEMINAR: Nehal BHUTA, The State Theory of Grotius (St Andrews, ILCR - IIH, 8 APR 2021)

 

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Nehal Bhuta (Edinburgh Law School) will hold a talk on "The State Theory of Grotius", organized by the University of St Andrews (ILCR and IIH) on Zoom. Click on the image above to enlarge the image and obtain details.

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BOOK: Randall LESAFFER and Janne NIJMAN (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius (Cambridge: CUP, 2021)

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Abstract:

The Cambridge Companion to Grotius offers a comprehensive overview of Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) for students, teachers, and general readers, while its chapters also draw upon and contribute to recent specialised discussions of Grotius' oeuvre and its later reception. Contributors to this volume cover the width and breadth of Grotius' work and thought, ranging from his literary work, including his historical, theological and political writing, to his seminal legal interventions. While giving these various fields a separate treatment, the book also delves into the underlying conceptions and outlooks that formed Grotius' intellectual map of the world as he understood it, and as he wanted it to become, giving a new political and religious context to his forays into international and domestic law.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction Randall Lesaffer and Janne E. Nijman
Part I: Grotius in Context:
2. Life and Intellectual Development. An Introductory Biographical Sketch Henk Nellen
3. Grotius as Legal, Political and Diplomatic Official in the Dutch Republic Edwin Rabbie
4. Grotius and the East Indies Peter Borschberg
Part II: Concepts:
5. Virtue Mark Somos
6. Trust (fides) Peter Schröder
7. Natural Law as True Law Meirav Jones
8. Sociability Benjamin Straumann
9. Sovereignty Guus Van Nifterik
10. Church and State Harm-Jan Van Dam
11. Predestination Camilla Boisen
12. Rights Francesca Iurlaro
13. Rights Laurens Winkel
14. Property, Trade and Empire Andrew Fitzmaurice
Part III: Grotius as Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer:
15. Literary Writings Arthur Eyffinger
16. Historical Writings Jan Waszink
17. Theological Writings Oliver O'Donovan
18. Political Writings Hans Blom
Part IV: Grotius as a Legal Scholar:
19. Legal Scholastic and Humanist Influences on Grotius Alain Wijffels
20.Grotius' Introduction to Hollandic Jurisprudence Wouter Druwé
21. The Laws of War- and Peace-Making Randall Lesaffer
22. The Law of Armed Conflict Stephen C. Neff
23. The Freedom of the Seas William E. Butler
24. Property Bart Wauters
25. The Law of Contract and Treaties Paolo Astorri
26. Punishment and Crime Dennis Klimchuk
Part V: The Reception of Grotius:
27. Grotius and the Enlightenment Marco Barducci
28. Grotian Revivals in the Theory and History of International Law Ignacio de la Rasilla
29. Grotius in International Relations Theory William Bain.

On the editors:

Randall Lesaffer, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands Randall Lesaffer is Professor of Legal History at KU Leuven in Belgium and at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. His research focuses on the history of the early-modern law of nations in Europe, as well as the history of modern international law. He is the general editor of The Cambridge History of International Law, Oxford Historical Treaties and an editor of The Journal of the History of International Law. He is president of the Grotiana Foundation (https://grotiana.eu/); Janne E. Nijman, Universiteit van Amsterdam Janne E. Nijman is Professor of History and Theory of International Law at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and academic director of the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague. She is also Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She has published on Hugo Grotius, and she is an editor on the board of Grotiana and a board member of the Grotiana Foundation (https://grotiana.eu/).

(source: CUP) 

BOOK: Victor SIMON, Les échelles du Levant et de barbarie - Droit du commerce international entre la France et l'Empire ottoman, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle [Bibliothèque d'histoire du droit et droit romain; 38] (Paris: LGDJ, 2021), 380 p. ISBN 978-2-275-08394-0, €57

 

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Book abstract:

Au coeur des grandes recompositions géopolitiques de la première moitié du XVIe siècle, François Ier tisse d'étroites relations avec l'Empire ottoman de Soliman. Cette "alliance impie" avec le grand seigneur se prolonge par l'octroi d'importants privilèges commerciaux, désignés sous le terme de capitulations, au profit des sujets du roi de France. En se fondant sur ces textes, des négociants provençaux développent alors des réseaux commerciaux complexes en Méditerranée orientale et en Afrique du Nord. Ceux-ci établissent en effet des maisons de commerce dans les principales cités ottomanes qu'ils qualifient d'échelles du Levant et de Barbarie, comme autant de têtes de pont du négoce européen. A partir du ministère de Colbert, ce lucratif commerce international est peu à peu envisagé comme un facteur stratégique, permettant de soutenir la puissance de l'Etat. La monarchie s'insinue dès lors toujours plus loin dans la direction des affaires, en orientant l'activité des marchands au moyen d'une réglementation de plus en plus rigide qui entrave les initiatives individuelles. En réaction, les négociants impliqués dans le commerce méditerranéen formulent des thèses libérales très critiques vis-à-vis de la politique royale. A la confluence du droit international public, de la législation royale et des usages commerciaux, l'histoire juridique des échelles du Levant et de Barbarie est, dès lors, traversée d'insolubles tensions entre milieux d'affaires et grands administrateurs du royaume. Prix Araxie Torossian de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques Prix André Isoré de la Chancellerie des universités de Paris Prix de l'Association des historiens des facultés de droit Prix de thèse de l'Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

On the author:

Victor Simon est professeur à l'Université de Lille. 

(source: Furet) 

BOOK: Irene DINGEL, Michael ROHRSCHNEIDER, Inken SCHMIDT-VOGES, Siegrid WESTPHAL & Joachim WHALEY (eds.), Handbuch Frieden im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit/Peace in Early Modern Europe. A Handbook (Berlin: De Gruyter/Oldenbourg, 2020), 950 p. ISBN 978-3-11-059131-6, € 149,95

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Book abstract:

The development of European peace processes is as characteristic of early modernity as the ubiquity of military conflict: over 2,000 international or domestic peace treaties were concluded in this era. This handbook presents the most recent findings of international research on political and societal peace orders, peace concepts and practices, along with the cultures of peace in the early modern period.

Table of contents:

Einführung (Irene Dingel, Michael Rohrschneider, Inken Schmidt-Voges, Siegrid Westphal, and Joachim Whaley) (open access)

Introduction (open access)

SEKTION I: FRIEDENSBEGRIFFE UND -IDEEN VISIONS AND IDEAS OF PEACE

1. Antike und mittelalterliche Grundlagen frühneuzeitlicher Friedensvorstellungen (Hermann Kamp)

2. Frieden: Renaissance – Humanismus – Reformation (Volker Leppin)

3. Frieden zwischen religiöser und säkularer Deutung, 1555–1700 (Friedrich Beiderbeck)

4. Frieden und Utopie (Thomas Schölderle)

5. Immanuel Kant und die Friedensvorstellungen im Denken der Aufklärung (Thomas Schölderle)

6. Peace and Law (Frederik Dhondt)

7. Ideas of Peace and Practice of Peacemaking in Pre-Modern South Asia (Murari Kumar Jha)

SEKTION II: FRIEDENSORDNUNGEN PEACE SYSTEMS

8. Landfrieden (Duncan Hardy)

9. Justizwesen (Anette Baumann)

10. Frieden als Leitbegriff und Handlungsfeld frühneuzeitlicher Policeyordnungen (Karl Härter)

11. Erbeinungen (Uwe Tresp)

12. Friedensräume. Burgfrieden, Kirchenfrieden, Gerichtsfrieden, Marktfrieden (Masaki Taguchi)

13. Hausfrieden. Eine doppelte Friedensordnung (Inken Schmidt-Voges)

14. Religionsfrieden (Irene Dingel)

15. Peacemaking in the Thirty Years War (Derek Croxton)

16. Waffenstillstand, Anstand und Stillstand (Gabriele Haug-Moritz)

17. Zwischenstaatlicher Frieden (Anuschka Tischer)

18. Friedensverträge (Martin Espenhorst)

19. Friedensschlüsse mit außereuropäischen Herrschern. Afrika, Mittelmeerraum, Osmanisches Reich (Benjamin Steiner)

20. Treaties in Asia (Peter Borschberg)

21. Peace Treaties Between Colonial Powers and Indigenous Peoples in North America (Katherine A. Hermes)

SEKTION III: FRIEDENSPRAKTIKEN UND ‑PROZESSE PEACEMAKING AND PEACE PROCESSES

22. Friedenskongresse (Johannes Burkhardt and Benjamin Durst)

23. Verhandlungstechniken und ‑praktiken (Maria-Elisabeth Brunert and Lena Oetzel)

24. Friedensvermittlung und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (Michael Rohrschneider)

25. Verhandlungssprachen und Übersetzungen (Guido Braun)

26. Akteur*innen der Friedensstiftung und ‑wahrung (Volker Arnke)

27. Historische Sicherheitsforschung und die Sicherheit des Friedens (Christoph Kampmann and Horst Carl)

28. Neutralität (Axel Gotthard)

29. Amnestie und Normaljahre (Ralf-Peter Fuchs)

30. Toleranz (Ulrich Niggemann)

31. Zeremoniell (Niels F. May)

32. Friedensfeiern und Gedächtniskultur (Renger E. de Bruin and Alexander Jordan)

33. Die materielle Kultur des Friedenschließens (Harriet Rudolph)

34. Frieden und Friedenssymboliken in der Bildenden Kunst (Eva-Bettina Krems)

35. Friedensmusiken (Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort)

36. Friedenspredigten (Henning P. Jürgens)

37. Frieden in der Literatur (Klaus Garber)

SEKTION V: FRÜHNEUZEITLICHE FRIEDENSSCHLÜSSE EARLY MODERN PEACE TREATIES

38. Der Kuttenberger Religionsfrieden 1485 (Alexandra Schäfer-Griebel)

39. Ewiger Landfrieden 1495 (Hendrik Baumbach)

40. Erster und Zweiter Kappeler Landfrieden 1529 & 1531 (Andreas Zecherle)

41. Augsburger Religionsfrieden 1555 (Armin Kohnle)

42. Der Frieden von Cateau-Cambrésis 1559 (Rainer Babel)

43. Warschauer Konföderation 1573 (Christopher Voigt-Goy)

44. The Edict of Nantes 1598 (Mark Greengrass)

45. Die Friedensschlüsse von Siebenbürgen: Wegmarken religiöser Toleranz oder der Konfessionalisierung? (Mihály Balázs)

46. Der Westfälische Frieden 1648 (Siegrid Westphal)

47. Nijmegen, Rijswijk, Utrecht: The Peace Treaties of the Wars of Louis XIV (Klaas Van Gelder)

48. Der Friede von Zsitvatorok 1606 und die Friedensschlüsse der ‚Türkenkriege‘ (Arno Strohmeyer)

49. Die Friedensschlüsse der Nordischen Kriege 1570–1814 (Dorothée Goetze)

50. Die Friedensschlüsse der friderizianischtheresianischen Ära (Regina Dauser)

51. Friedensschlüsse zwischen Französischer Revolution und Wiener Kongressordnung (Reinhard Stauber)

More information with DeGruyter.

BOOK: Indravati FÉLICITÉ (dir.), L’Identité du diplomate (Moyen Âge-xixe siècle) Métier ou noble loisir ? [Rencontres, vol. 471] (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020), 490 p. ISBN 978-2-406-10464-3, € 42

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Abstract:

Entre le Moyen Âge et le xixe siècle, le diplomate européen est un personnage bien identifié, revêtu d’un caractère et agissant dans le cadre d’une scénographie particulière. Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse des connaissances actuelles sur le métier, la situation sociale et l’image du diplomate.

Chapters:

Introduction L’identité du diplomate, Moyen Âge – XIXe siècle. Métier ou noble loisir ? (Indravati Félicité)

Diplomate, huguenot ou humaniste ? Le modèle de l'agent français auprès des princes protestants de l'Empire (1589–1620) (Camille Desenclos)

Le ministre ou le plénipotentiaire est un caméléon (La Bruyère) Les multiples rôles des « ambassadeurs » à la cour de Louis XIV (Sven Externbrink)

Experience Instead of Professionalism The Brandenburg Legate Friedrich Rudolph of Canitz (1654-1699) Reflected in his Library (Anna Lingnau)

Du négoce en diplomatie Édouard Boyetet à la croisée des mondes marchands et diplomatiques (1772-1784) (Sylvain Lloret)

Les négociateurs français à Genève (1679-1798) Identités sociales composites et pluralité des parcours (Fabrice Brandli)

Des chemins divergents ? Diplomates français et allemands de la fin du XIXe siècle à la Première Guerre mondiale (Marion Aballéa)

Du noble ambassadeur au fonctionnaire public L'invention du « diplomate » sous la Révolution française (Virginie Martin)

Charles-Frédéric, comte Reinhard (1761-1837) Diplomate et homme de lettres (Ina Ulrike Paul)

Le caractère du diplomate idéal au XIXe siècle Constantes et évolutions (Yves Bruley)

“Il nome moscovita è arrivato infino a noi” The relationship between the diplomats of Philip V of Spain and those of Tsar Peter I (1717-1719)  (Núria Sallés Vilaseca)

Entre information et journalisme Les insertions pour la Gazette de France du Baron de La Houze, Ministre plénipotentiaire de la France à Parme (1766-1770) (Géraud Poumarède) 

L'interprète en diplomatie Expériences françaises au Siam dans la seconde partie du XIXe siècle (Laurence Badel)

­L’ambassadeur entre audiences et dépêches Statuts et usages de ­l’écrit et de ­l’oral dans les pratiques de négociation au XVIe siècle (Matthieu Gellard)

La correspondance diplomatique et la production de savoirs Une analyse des rapports des ambassadeurs français dans le Saint-Empire à la fin de la guerre de Trente Ans (Guido Braun)

Diplomatie impériale contre diplomatie française Bruxelles au carrefour des ­cultures et des pratiques, seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle (Jean-Charles Speeckaert)

Quand se côtoyaient humanistes et hommes de métier (Elisabeth Malamut)

Une figure ­d’espion-diplomate ou les aventures de Reginald Teague-Jones au service de ­l’Empire britannique (Guillemette Crouzet)

Les nonciatures de Prospero SantaCroce Le savoir-faire diplomatique au service d’un parcours curial (Jean Sénié)

« [...] the Emp.r’s Envoy is as good as other Princes Amb.rs. » Diplomates impériaux et britanniques auprès des cours de Londres et de Vienne au début du XVIIIe siècle (Charlotte Backerra)

« Tout vient du Nord » ? Les diplomates russes et danois et la sociabilité parisienne sous l’œil de la police (1740-1747) (Dzianis Kandakou & Alexaner Stroev)

The French Royal Mistress as Diplomat (Christine Adams & Tracy Adams)

Négocier entre diplomates, nobles, spécialistes ou ministres ? Une prosopographie des négociateurs lors des rencontres internationales aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Niels F. May)

Principal ministre et diplomate ? Les principaux ministres allemands et leur activité diplomatique au XVIIIe siècle (Sébastien Schick)

« Le cul de sac du Nord » Séjour et carrière des diplomates français employés en Europe du Nord au tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Eric Schnakenbourg)

« Faut-il rester en diplomatie ? » Les facteurs ­d’attraction de la diplomatie à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle (Michael Auwers)

Pour dépasser le paradigme de la professionnalisation Réflexions sur la situation financière des diplomates au XVIIIe siècle (Indravati Félicité)

Conclusions (Stefano Andretta)

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BOOK: Géraud POUMARÈDE, L’Empire de Venise et les Turcs. XVIe-XVIIe siècle [Histoire des Temps modernes; 7] (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020), 740 p. ISBN 978-2-406-10327-1

 

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Book presentation:

Cet ouvrage analyse les relations vénéto-ottomanes depuis l’empire maritime de Venise. Ce dernier occupe une place centrale parmi les fondements symboliques de la puissance vénitienne ; il détermine les décisions, par lesquelles la classe dirigeante de la Sérénissime définit ses rapports avec la Porte.

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ADVANCE ARTICLE: Hans BLOM & Mark SOMOS, 'Public-Private Concord through Divided Sovereignty: Reframing societas for International Law' (Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international) (OPEN ACCESS)

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 Abstract:

Grotius is the father of modern international law. The indivisibility of sovereignty was the sine qua non of early-modern conceptual innovation in law. Both statements are axiomatic in the mainstream literature of the last two centuries. Both are profoundly and interestingly wrong. This paper shows that Grotius’ systematisation of public and international law involved defining corporations as potentially (and the VOC actually) integral to reason of state, and able to bear and exercise marks of sovereignty under certain conditions. For Grotius, some corporations were not subsumed under the state’s legal authority, nor were they hybrid ‘company-states’. Instead, states and such corporations, able and forced to cooperate, fell under dovetailing natural, international, and municipal systems of law. The paper reexamines Grotius’ notion of international trade, public debt, private corporation, and public and private war through the reassembled prism of these dovetailing laws and the category of societas that underpins Grotian associations. It is argued that although formulated around the new East India trade, the actual reality of legal pluralism was available to Grotius in the Dutch trade experience of the sixteenth century.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: A Divided Memory ? The Battle of Lepanto on the 450th Anniversary (1571-2021) (Proposte e ricerche. Economia e società nela storia dell'Italia centrale, DEADLINE 20 DEC 2020)

 

 

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A Divided Memory?

The Battle of Lepanto on the 450^th Anniversary

(1571-2021)

 

 

The naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571 represents one of the symbolic events of the Euro-Mediterranean cultural heritage and become an emblem of the dispute, even then more political than religious, between West and East, Christianity and Islam, Europe and Asia, remaining an expression of a memory that still testifies a contradictory and difficult relationship.

 

In Marche Region, the Battle of Lepanto had a great echo. Still today a historical re-enactment named “festa bella” is periodically organised at Spelonga, where the people of the small community of Arquata del Tronto, in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, recall their participation in the battle. In many other towns, the battle was celebrated with paintings dedicated to the Madonna del Rosario to whom the Victory was consecrated (for example at Grottammare and Petriolo), while in the Pieve Collegiata in San Ginesio the painter Mercurio Rusiolo represented the battle in its unfolding, on a painting commissioned by Captain Felice Matteucci, who had just returned from the clash.

 

A well-known scholar, born in San Ginesio, one of the founding fathers of International Law, Alberico Gentili, in his De jure belli libri tres (1598), outlining the relations that Christian Europe should have kept with Turks, so stated:

 

“Né contro altri né contro i Turchi c'è guerra a causa della religione, e neppure per cause naturali; nondimeno, c'è guerra contro i Turchi perché questi si comportano da nemici contro di noi, complottano, ci minacciano, ci derubano con ogni perfidia ogni volta che possono. Così abbiamo sempre una giusta causa di guerra contro i Turchi. Nei loro riguardi non si deve rompere la parola data né aggredirli se se ne stanno tranquilli e pacifici, senza macchinare contro di noi; certo che no! Ma quando mai i Turchi si comportano così? Tacete teologi, su argomenti che non sono di vostra pertinenza!”

 

Although these words are no longer representative of current sensitivity, they call to our attention the need to analyse the roots of the confrontation between Europe and the Ottoman Empire and to reveal the reasons of a dispute that, in some ways, the events of the modern "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey bring up, making relevant once again topics and problems that have marked the relations between the Mediterranean peoples for centuries.

 

The journal Proposte e ricerche. Economia e società nella storia dell’Italia centrale, in partnership with the Interdepartmental Research Center on the Adriatic and the Mediterranean of the University of Macerata, via this Call for Papers, aims to bring together scholars who debate, from different perspectives and with an interdisciplinary approach, the variety of topics that concern the cultural, political and ideological heritage that the Battle of Lepanto left in Mediterranean societies, being a significant point of observation from which to analyse the relations between Europe and the Islamic world.

 

Scholars are invited to submit an abstract focusing primarily on the following axes:

 

·       Impact of the Battle of Lepanto on the geopolitical and economic Mediterranean area

 

·       Representation and symbols of the Battle of Lepanto in art, literature and folklore

 

·       Religious meaning of the Battle of Lepanto and the relations between Christianity and Islam

 

·       Meaning of the Battle of Lepanto in the Turkish perspective

 

·       Battle of Lepanto as part of the Italian and European cultural heritage.

 

 

Proposals of articles:

Proposals for original articles, in Italian and English, must include an abstract (with a short bibliography) not exceeding 3,000 characters, and a brief CV of the author with the list of publications.

Proposals are to be submitted to the e-mail addresses of the two contact persons: Maria Ciotti (maria.ciotti@unimc.it) and Andrea Caligiuri (andrea.caligiuri@unimc.it), including in the subject line of the e-mail: CFP LEPANTO.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is on 20 December 2020.

 

 

Selected articles:

The authors shortlisted will be notified by the end of December 2020.

Articles, in Italian, French or English, selected for publication must not exceed 50,000 characters, spaces and footnotes included, and must be submitted in a final version before 30 April 2021.

All the articles will be submitted to a double-blind review.

The publication of the special issue in the journal Proposte e ricerche. Economia e società nella storia dell’Italia centrale is expected by 2021.

BOOK: Eric SCHNAKENBOURG & François TERNAT (eds.) Une diplomatie des lointains - La France face à la mondialisation des rivalités internationales. XVIIe-XVIIIe (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2020), ISBN 9782753580077, €30

 

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Abstract:

A partir du XVIIe siècle, l'élargissement du champ d'activité de la diplomatie française à l'Amérique, à l'Afrique et à l'Asie invite le monde à la table des grandes négociations. Mais parallèlement, au niveau local, la conduite de la diplomatie ordinaire est une affaire d'individus vivant à l'interface des mondes européens et autochtones. Qu'ils participent à la conclusion de traités de paix, à la réussite d'opérations commerciales ou à la traite des esclaves, ils sont les acteurs de terrain de la mondialisation de la diplomatie française. L'influence toujours plus importante des espaces lointains sur la conduite de la diplomatie française est un défi aux multiples dimensions dont ce volume a l'ambition de rendre compte en jouant sur les points de vue et les échelles pour comprendre l'exercice de la diplomatie française à l'écoute et à l'épreuve du monde.

(source: Furet du nord) 

BOOK: Catherine FLETCHER, Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome. The Rise of the Resident Ambassador (Cambridge: University Press, 2020). ISBN: 9781107515789, £ 22.99

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length study of this subject for sixty years, Catherine Fletcher substantially enhances our understanding of the envoy's role during this pivotal period for the development of diplomacy. Uniting rich but hitherto unexploited archival sources with recent insights from social and cultural history, Fletcher argues for the centrality of the papal court - and the city of Rome - in the formation of the modern European diplomatic system. The book addresses topics such as the political context from the return of the popes to Rome, the 1454 Peace of Lodi and after 1494 the Italian Wars; the assimilation of ambassadors into the ceremonial world; the prescriptive literature; trends in the personnel of diplomacy; an exploration of travel and communication practices; the city of Rome as a space for diplomacy; and the world of gift-giving.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Catherine Fletcher is Lecturer in Public History at the University of Sheffield. Her first book, Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and his Italian Ambassador, was published in 2012. Catherine graduated with a first-class degree in Politics and Communication Studies from the University of Liverpool and worked for the BBC Political Unit before studying for a PhD in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She held fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research, the British School at Rome and the European University Institute before taking up her current post in 2012. She has published widely on aspects of early modern political culture and diplomacy. Catherine is a regular media contributor and has been a guest on two editions of BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' among other programmes. She has been a historical adviser to the new TV production of Wolf Hall and blogs at History Matters.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Rome and the rise of resident diplomacy

2. Conceptualising the resident ambassador

3. The ritual world of the curia

4. The personnel of diplomacy

5. Information and communication

6. Locating diplomacy in the city of Rome

7. 'Those who give are not all generous': the world of gifts

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

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(source: ESCLH Blog)

BOOK: Michael BECKER, Kriegsrecht im frühneuzeitlichen Protestantismus Eine Untersuchung zum Beitrag lutherischer und reformierter Theologen, Juristen und anderer Gelehrter zur Kriegsrechtsliteratur im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert [Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation; 103] (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), XV + 455 p. ISBN 978-3-16-155362-2, € 89

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Abstract:

Das 16. und 17. Jahrhundert ist für die Völkerrechtsgeschichte von besonderer Bedeutung. Aufgrund der spanischen Expansion in der Neuen Welt und der konfessionellen Konflikte in Europa wurden völkerrechtliche Fragen kontrovers diskutiert. Während der römisch-katholische Anteil des Völkerrechtsdiskurses bereits Gegenstand zahlreicher Untersuchungen wurde, ist der protestantische Beitrag zur Genese und Ausdifferenzierung des frühneuzeitlichen Völkerrechts weitgehend unbekannt. Michael Becker befasst sich daher mit den Werken protestantischer Theologen, Juristen und anderer Gelehrter, die sich zu Fragen des Völkerrechts geäußert haben. Anhand von spezifischen Problemstellungen aus dem Bereich des Kriegs- und Bündnisrechts (religiöse Offensiv- und Verteidigungskriege, Bündnisse zwischen unterschiedlichen Konfessionen) zeigt er, dass protestantische Gelehrte den Völkerrechtsdiskurs mitgeprägt haben. Die Arbeit wurde mit einem Preis des wissenschsftlichen Beirats zum Reformationsjubiläum ausgezeichnet.

(source: Mohr Siebeck)

ARTICLE: Hannah DAWSON, "The Normativity of Nature in Pufendorf and Locke" (Historical Journal LXIII (2020), 3, 528-558

(image: John Locke; Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Abstract:

At the beginning of De jure naturae et gentium (1672), Samuel von Pufendorf proposed a radical dichotomy between nature and morality. He was followed down this arid path by his great admirer John Locke. This article begins by exploring their descriptions of this dichotomy, examining the ways in which human animals were supposed to haul themselves out of the push and pull of the mechanistic world in order to become free moral agents. The article then argues that bubbling up from within this principal account of morality is an alternative account according to which virtue seems to infuse nature, thereby blurring the lines between obligation and motivation, and refiguring the character of moral and political agency. In uncovering this refiguration, I highlight the importance of Aristotelianism and Stoicism for Pufendorf and Locke, suggest continuities rather than breaks between the natural lawyers of the seventeenth century and the theorists of moral sentiment of the next, and gesture towards a hitherto underappreciated discourse in early modern thought: the normativity of nature.

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