She focusses on #emdiplomacy in East and Central Asia, especially on prisoners of war and slaves in Russia and Central Asia as diplomatic actors, as she explores in this recent article.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777246-009

Together with Birgit Tremml-Werner she also edited a special issue in the Journal of the History of Ideas on “Translation in Action” combining intellectual history and #emdiplomay from a global point of view.
https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0022

This are only a few of her many publications. So if you’re interested in global #emdiplomacy you should not miss out on her work.

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For concluding #WomensHistoryMonth we want to introduce to you another wonderful female #emdiplomacy scholar: Lisa Hellman who recently was inaugurated as professor of global history at Lund University:

https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/persons/lisa-hellman

She is also PI for the international Research Environment “Moved Apart”. (10/)

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@EmmaJForsberg has most recently published her first article on #diplomatic titles in Northern Studies 53(2022):

https://www.ssns.org.uk/product/northern-studies-53/

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Here is another great female #emdiplomacy historian for our #WomensHistoryMonth: @EmmaJForsberg

Emma Forsberg is working on her PhD at Lund University on Swedish #emdiplomats in the 18th century.

https://www.hist.lu.se/person/EmmaForsberg/

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The second one on confessional #emdiplomacy; a subject that needs more attention. (7/n)

https://www.routledge.com/Confessional-Diplomacy-in-Early-Modern-Europe/Anderson-Backerra/p/book/9780367532314

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Most recently she co-edited two essay collections: one on #gender, #women and #emdiplomacy. (6/n)

https://www.hollitzer.at/buch/gender-and-diplomacy/

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She is co-founder of the premodern #diplomats network and Splendid Encounters conference series that provides a wonderful opportunity to discuss #emdiplomacy in a relaxed atmosphere; especially for early career researchers.

http://www.premoderndiplomats.org/

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Today, we want to introduce you to another pioneer of #NewDiplomaticHistory who did a lot to promote the subject on an international scene: Roberta Anderson who is also a member of our editorial board. (4/n)

https://theconversation.com/profiles/roberta-anderson-143670

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Moreover, together with Ruggero Sciuto Sowerby is organising the TORCH Network on Diplomacy in the Early Modern Period with regular talks and other activities:

https://earlymoderndiplomacyevents.wordpress.com/

So, if you’re working on #emdiplomacy, you really should not miss out on Tracey Sowerby’s excellent work! (3/n)

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We start off with Tracey A. Sowerby who many of you already know from her many publications and conferences that she organised. On the international scene, she really put #emdiplomacy and its cultural aspects back on the map.
She especially focusses on #diplomatic cultures, on #gender and #earlymodern #diplomacy and cross-confessional #diplomacy.
In 2021, she edited a volume on diplomatic cultures at the Ottoman Court.

https://www.routledge.com/Diplomatic-Cultures-at-the-Ottoman-Court-c15001630/Sowerby-Markiewicz/p/book/9780367767426

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The big pink book in good company at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

Picture by Julia Gebke

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Natour thus argues for more interdisciplinary cooperation between the history of diplomacy, art history, the history of music, the history of ideas as well as theatre and literary studies.
If we want to understand what #emdiplomacy was and who #emdiplomats were, we need, according to Natour, include paintings and other visual media in our considerations. (7/7)

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That there’s still much to learn about the way #emdiplomats wanted to be present themselves, shows this rather unusual portrait of Sir John Luttrell painted by Hans Eworth. (6/7)

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Additionally, #emdiplomats increasingly commissioned paintings themselves, often displaying them as diplomats. These paintings get more and more attention by current research. An especially famous example is Holbein’s The Ambassadors, showing the French ambassador to England, Jean de Dinteville. (5/7)

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Moreover, #emdiplomats played an increasing role in acquiring and commissioning #art acting as brokers in the developing market for art. This points to the close connection of #emdiplomacy, art, commerce and consumption.
This again shows the manifold tasks that diplomats had to perform. They had not only to have knowledge about art and craftsmanship to be able to acquire them for their home #court, but they had to be able to decipher the hidden, allegorical meanings of art. (4/7)

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For the #handbook, Natour tackles an even wider topic: the relation between #art and #diplomacy. She stresses the close but complicated relationship between (visual) art and #emdiplomacy. Diplomacy needed visualisation and art was one medium of communicating hierarchy, power and political messages. (3/7)

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Elisabeth Natour is currently working @unimainz@wisskomm.socialon an exciting project on #music as an element of political communication focussing on the #courts of Madrid, London and Paris around 1700. Next month her essay collection on music and #earlymodern politics will be published! We’re already looking forward to it. (2/7)

https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/geschichte-der-fruehen-neuzeit/58904/musik-und-politik-im-europa-der-fruehen-neuzeit

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The big pink book at work at Mainz university, Germany.
Picture by Elisabeth Natour

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Despite their differences, in all text the theological foundation of #emdiplomacy is striking. Moreover, #emdiplomacy is depicted as always at the risk of failure with war and conflict as the dooming consequence.

Depicting #emdiplomacy on stage or in other literary forms clearly demonstrates the importance of speech (acts). For an #emdiplomat it is not only important what is said, but how it is said. For the story these speech acts also play a central role for the development of the story. (5/6)

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Looking into these questions he focusses on 4 different examples: #Shakespeare’s Henry V (1598/99), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Historia General del Peru (1612/13), Andreas Gryphius’ Catharina von Georgien (1657) and Jean Racine’s Andromache (1667). (4/6)

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