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Konferencija 2018 09 27–28.Indd Premodern Diplomats Network Splendid Encounters VII, 2018 Premodern Diplomats Network Splendid Encounters 7 Conflict and Peace-making in Diplomacy 1300–1800 27th–28th September 2018 Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania Katedros a. 4, LT-01143 Vilnius Lithuania PROGRAMME THURSDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2018 Time Speaker 8.30–9.00 Registration 9.00–10.30 Keynote presentations and opening of the conference Rimvydas Petrauskas Heathens and Christians: Diplomacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the age of Crusades Dariusz Kołodziejczyk First Things First: Finding a Common Language and Date in Early Modern Diplomacy 10.30–11.00 COFFEE 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 11.00–13.00 Diplomacy and conflicts between states and/or Negotiations and negotiation sovereigns 1 techniques Chair: Anna Kalinowska Chair: Laurynas Ðedvydis Steve Murdoch Antanas Petrilionis Jacobean Diplomacy and the Thirty Years War Prisoners of war in the diplomacy of Teutonic Order and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 14th–15th c. Gabor Karman Subject – Mediator-Enemy. The Prince of Joao Carvalho Transylvania and the Seventeenth-Century Peace Challenges and disappointments of the Hispanic- Treaties of the Kings of Hungary Portuguese negotiations of 1725 P. I. Prudovsky Dariko Mazhidenova Provoking a Conflict – Settling a Conflict: How Francois de Caillers on the role of conducting Russian and Brandenburg-Prussian Diplomats negotiations were overcoming their political and cultural differences (1650–1700) Manuel Alejandro Castellano Garcıa Hidden diplomacy: the Franco-British secret John Condren negotiations to conclude the war of Spanish Mars as broker of peace: Louis XIV, the House of Succession Savoy and the Republic of Genoa, 1672–1673 13.00–14.30 LUNCH 1 ROOM 14.30–16.00 Reporting and/or documenting the way(s) of dealing with conflict(s) 1 Chair: Roberta Anderson Elisa Clodelli Reforming Female convents: the Role of a Venetian Ambassador in curia (1519) Angela De Maria The diplomatic role of Venetian and Ottoman dragomans at the end of the War of Candia Vita Diemantaitė Diplomats of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the chancellery of Leonas Sapiega 16.00–16.30 COFFEE 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 16.30–18.00 Diplomacy and the conflicts of the Baltic region Reporting and/or documenting the way(s) of in the 17th c. dealing with conflict(s) 2 Chair: Robert Frost Chair: Gabor Karman Thomas A. Ashby Gleb Kazakov Seeking Peace by the Sword: Ambassador Sidney From Russia with Caution: diplomatic reports and Commonwealth Diplomacy in the Dano- about the Moscow musketeer uprising of 1682 Swedish War of 1658–1660 and their efficiency Paul Hulsenboom Emilio Pérez Blanco Trade in Turmoil: Dutch diplomatic missions to An Ambassador’s Correspondence: the case of Poland-Lithuania in the first half of the 17th c. Genoa and Francisco Moles (1694–1695) during the Nine Year’s War Kathrin Zickermann Olga Khavanova Alexander Erskein (1598–1656): Swedish Praying for Elisabeth Petrovna’s good health: Resident, War Councillor, and Peace Negotiator Imperial Ambassador Count Nicolas Esterhazy at the St. Petersburg Court during the Seven Year’s War FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2018 Time Speaker 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 9.00–11.00 Cultural dimension of conflict and peace: arts, lan- Conflict and its impact on diplomatic guage and cultural representation and diplomacy practice Chair: Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Chair: John Condren Luise Scheidt Dorota Gregorowicz The Peace of Venice. The Representation of Venice A refused legation. Why did the primate of the King- as a Diplomatic Force in the Palazzo Ducale dome impede the papal peace-making initiative? The case of Mikołaj Prażmowski (1668–1669) Corinne Manchio Ambiguity and inconsistency of peace in the Jonathan Spangler official Machiavellian correspondence Operating from a point of weakness: Diplomats from Lorraine at the peace talks from Westphalia Ruth S.Noyes to Utrecht Sanctorum gloriam in tam remotis a Roma Provinciis propagare volerint. Sacred relic Juliane Märker translation as diplomacy in early modern Baltic Habsburg Diplomats in Venice during the War of ‘relic states’: the role of sacred in peace-keeping the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War in boreal borderland conflicts Jiří Kubeð Nathalie Rivere de Carles Audiences of Imperial envoys at the English royal Parrhesia in Early Modern Diplomatic History and court and the dispute over the title of the English Drama: an unexpected tactic of appeasement? Kings (1660–1750) 11.00–11.30 COFFEE 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 11.30–12.30 Dealing with conflicts: Moscovite diplomacy in Oblivion in Diplomacy the 16th c. Chair: Tomasz Wiślicz Chair: Roberta Anderson Marius Sirutavičius Charlotte Backerra Means to maintain peace: paradiplomatic “Willingness to forget” as the basis of Imperial– activities between Grand Duchy of Lithuania and British Relations Muscovy in the 16th c. Cathleen Sarti Alexei Bachinskii Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth. Hannibal Religious propinquity and differences as Sehested and the treaty of Copenhagen, 1660 instruments of manipulation and persuasion in matters of peace and war in the Russian diplomacy of the 16th century 12.30–14.00 LUNCH 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 14.00–15.30 Diplomacy and conflicts between states and/or Managing large and small-scale sovereigns 2 conflicts Chair: Steve Murdoch Chair: Darius Baronas Michael Talbot Nika Kochekovskaya “Restoring the world again to a good state”. Peace-making between negotiations and missives: Ottoman proposals for mediation during the War two cases of conflict and peace-making in Ivan of the Austrian Succession the Terrible’s diplomacy Frederik Dhondt Piotr Chmiel Jean Rousset de Missy’s Les Intérêt présens de Consular protection as a way of small-scale l’Europe (1733) as a political and legal mirror pf conflict prevention: several cases coming from diplomacy between sovereigns the activity of Venetian envoys to the Ottoman Empire, 16th/17th centuries Arnaud Parent Magdalena Jakubowska Crisis in the Wild Fields: How the litigation Making peace or a new problem? Polish-Lithuanian between the Republic of the Two Nations and the negotiations in Prague and Constantinople after the Khanate of Crimea was settled (1760–1763) fall of the Michael the Brave 15.30 Closing remarks 16.00 TOUR OF THE PALACE Thank you for joining the Premodern Diplomats Network for Splendid Encounters VII. We look forward to welcoming you next year in Toulouse for Splendid Encounters VIII. Premodern Diplomats Network Splendid Encounters VII, 2018 ABSTRACTS Premodern Diplomats Network Splendid Encounters VII, 2018 Thomas Ashby, European University Institute (Florence) Alexei Bachinskii, The Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) ‘Seeking Peace by the Sword’: Ambassador Sidney and Commonwealth Diplomacy in the Dano-Swedish War of Religious propinquity and differences as instruments of 1658–1660 manipulation and persuasion in matters of peace and war in the Russian diplomacy of the 16th century In 1658, Sweden invaded Denmark, unexpectedly violating the recent Roskilde Treaty, and swiftly advanced to Copenhagen. This alarmed England and the United The policy of Ivan the Terrible was often justified by Provinces, who now found their Baltic interests at threat. religion. In this regard, the issue of the use of religious After the invasion was stalled by the arrival of Dutch and themes for diplomatic purposes, both for resolving English fleets, the two republics negotiated to act together, conflicts and for demonstrating aggressive intentions, with French diplomatic co-operation, to mediate a peace, becomes important. This paper will examine: by force if necessary, between the two monarchies. After much delay, and some diplomatic incidents, a treaty 1. Ivan IV had repeatedly criticised Protestantism. The was finally signed by the warring kingdoms and all three most stinging criticism had been used in the initial mediating powers in May 1660. period of the Livonian War, when the tsar informed the Lithuanian ambassadors that he was punishing The English envoys to the Sound were led by Algernon Livonians for turning away from Catholicism. In turn, Sidney (1623–1683), a key interlocutor in Commonwealth in the phase of the tsar’s rapprochement with the foreign policy and a senior member of its Council of State. Magnus of Denmark, Ivan IV gave him a guarantee Despite safeguarding English interests, the Copenhagen of the preservation of religion of the population of Treaty was of little consolation to Sidney, however, for not Livonia. only had the talks failed to satisfy his desired co-operation 2. Religious issues were presented in different ways in with the Dutch, his own republic had collapsed. Two days relations with Christian and Islamic rulers. later Charles II entered London. Sidney would not return 3. In relation to the ‘Islamic theme’ was the subject to England until 1677, where in 1683 he was executed, of persuasion and manipulation. Thus, in his his soon-to-be famous Discourses concerning government correspondence with Rudolf II, Ivan IV hinted at cited as a witness to treason. possible joint action against the Sultan and Stephen Bathory’s connection with Turkey. This paper will seek to investigate Sidney’s embassy to 4. The discussion of which of the Christian confessions the Sound and illustrate a case study in the relationship is the true one could be raised in two diplomatic between his thought on politics, religion, and the contexts. First, when Ivan IV was criticising the relations between states, and his diplomatic practice in opponents who were Protestants. The other context seeking peace. To understand this practice, which proved is an appeal to the religious affinity of the Orthodox deeply problematic, I will explore Sidney’s relations people in Russia and Lithuania, which sometimes was with colleagues, foreign counterparts, and the monarchs, used in peace negotiations. particularly the Swedish king, Karl X Gustav (1622–1660), 5. The topic of the closeness of all Christians is prior to his premature death midway into the negotiations. more common than the theme of the differences.
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