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The role of #peacecongresses in these processes of exchange was tackled twice: @LenaOetzel focused on the congress of #Westphalia, while Michael Brauer from Salzburg University looked at the congress of Vienna (1815).

Lena argued that the peace congress didn’t function as a special hub for the exchange of goods between the Austrian and the Spanish Habsburgs; they had their permanent ambassadors at the courts that dealt with this kind of exchange. But nonetheless the peace congress was a place of exchange, especially of food. For the Imperial estates the congress offered an unusual opportunity to get into contact to the greater European powers. Among others there did this by offering gifts, especially food. The count of Oldenburg e.g. gave away huge amounts of meat and fish and other delicacies in order to enhance his interests. (5/)

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Summing up, Goetze concludes that the complexity of #emdiplomacy is reflected in the complexity of the #HRE and calls for more a more inclusive approach meaning more exchange between different research tradition, combining constitutional history, court studies and dynastic history and #NewDiplomaticHistory. (7/7)

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Research generally focusses on #emdiplomacy on the Imperial level mainly at courts, while ignoring the intra-Imperial forms of diplomacy. With regard to the Imperial #diets this means, they are either regarded from an institutional perspective or with a focus on foreign actors who came to the diets to pursue their interests. However, Goetze argues that for the Imperial estates diets and meetings of the Kreise were central not only for discussing matters concerning the #HRE as a whole, but also for bilateral talks between the estates.

Ignoring the intra-Imperial aspects of #emdiplomacy leads to a simplified understanding of #emdiplomacy within in the context of the #HRE and in general. (5/7)

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To understand #emdiplomacy in the #HRE on its different levels we need to know at least a tiny bit about the constitutional foundation which is, as Goetze puts it, like the “taming of the shrewd”.

According to the institutional structure of the #HRE one can identify three levels of #emdiplomacy: 1) the Imperial level 2) the level of the Reichskreise, that can be described as regional administrative groupings 3) the level of individual Imperial estates. (4/7)

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Today’s #handbook author is none other than our wonderful co-editor @dorotheegoetze.
Goetze is Assistant Professor at the Midsweden University in Sundsvall. If you ask her herself, she is not an historian of #emdiplomacy, but does constitutional history and early modern peace research with a special focus on the #HolyRomanEmpire and the Baltic region. Thus, she brings different perspectives into the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory.
She publishes extensively in German, Swedish and English, e.g. this #openaccess article in English on hospitality and the Riga capitulation in 1710. (2/7)

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-98527-1_7

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>> I have a genuine #historical question: "I wonder how did kings manage to compel their servants and other people that their power was given by Gods? Why did people want to be ruled by kings? Why did they buy that scam?

#Religion

The political and military power of the king depended on a symbiotic unholy relationship with #clergy. See #HolyRomanEmpire.

Same thing is happening in #America with #MAGA, #SCOTUS #TwoTurds, #Trump, & #ChristoFascist who exploit religion for power

But she is not alone! With David Gehring at University of Notthingham, who is an expert on #earlymodern #British #history, she found the perfect partner in writing. Gehring’s special interest on #Elizabethan #England's relations with the Protestant territories of the #HolyRomanEmpire and #Denmark is also reflected in his publications:

https://www.cambridge.org/jm/academic/subjects/history/british-history-after-1450/diplomatic-intelligence-holy-roman-empire-and-denmark-during-reigns-elizabeth-i-and-james-vi-three-treatises

(3/6)
#diplomacy #emdiplomacy #histodons #NewDiplomaticHistory

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We continue introducing our great authors to you. Please welcome our next writing couple, Stefanie Freyer and David Gehring! Freyer works as research officer at Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Her research focuses on #courtStudies, #gender history and #history of #diplomacy. In 2020 she published an anthology on strategies of knowledge in #emdiplomacy:

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110625431/html

Freyer’s current research project focuses on relations between #England and the #HolyRomanEmpire between 1590 and 1625. So, who could be better suited to contribute with an article on English diplomacy to the #emdiplomacy handbook? (2/2)

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