The book series "Diplomatica" of the Don Juan Archiv Wien researches cultural aspects of diplomacy and diplomatic history up to the nineteenth
century. This second volume of the series features the proceedings of the Don Juan Archiv's symposium organized in March 2016 in cooperation
with the University of Vienna and Stvdivm fÆsvlancm to discuss the topic of gender from a diplomatic-historical perspective, addressing questions of where women and men were positioned in the diplomacy of the early modern world. Gender might not always be the first topic that comes to mind when discussing international relations, but it has a considerable bearing on diplomatic issues. Scholars have not left this field of research unexplored, with a widening corpus of texts discussing modern diplomacy and gender. Women appear regularly in diplomatic contexts. As for the early modern world, ambassadorial positions were monopolized by men, yet women could and did perform diplomatic roles, both officially and unofficially. This is where the main focus of this volume lies. It features sixteen contributions in the following four "acts": Women as Diplomatic Actors, The Diplomacy of Queens, The Birth of the Ambassadress, and Stages for Male Diplomacy.
Contributions are by Wolfram Aichinger | Roberta Anderson | Annalisa Biagianti | Osman Nihat Bi gin | John Condren | Camille Desenclos | Ekaterina
Domnina | David García Cueto | María Concepción Gutiérrez Redondo | Armando Fabio Ivaldi | Rocío Martínez López | Laura Mesotten | Laura Oliván Santaliestra | Tracey A. Sowerby | Luis Tercero Casado | Pia Wallnig
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Prologue: A Painting
Laura Oliván Santaliestra (Granada)
Editorial to the Volume
Roberta Anderson (Bath) and Suna Suner (Vienna)
PART I
WOMEN AS DIPLOMATIC ACTORS
Splendid Women in the Diplomacy of Juan Antonio de Vera (1583 1658), Ambassador of the Catholic King Philip IV
María Concepción Gutiérrez Redondo (Madrid)
Key Role Figures in the Diplomatic Network:
Women as Intermediaries for the Ambassador of Lucca at the Court of the Queen "Gobernadora" Mariana of Austria (1662 1674)
Annalisa Biagianti (Pisa)
Women's Place in Diplomacy through the French Diplomatic Correspondences of the Early Seventeenth Century
Camille Desenclos (Mulhouse, Upper Alsace)
The Role of Women in Louis XIV's Relationship with
the Gonzaga-Nevers di Mantova between 1665 and 1691
John Condren (Oxford)
PART II
DIPLOMACY OF QUEENS
Sir Henry Unton (c. 1558 1596), Elizabeth I (r. 1558 1603) and Chivalric Diplomacy
Tracey A. Sowerby (Oxford)
A Bridegroom for Elizabeth: Diplomatic Negotiations for the Marriage of Princess Elizabeth, 1610 1613
Roberta Anderson (Bath)
Consequences of the Dynastic Crises of the Seventeenth Century in the Matrimonial Market and Their Inf luence in the European International
Policy: The Case of Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667 1740)
Rocío Martínez López (Madrid)
PART III
THE BIRTH OF THE AMBASSADRESS
Who was the "Embajadora"?
Concept, Treatises and Examples (1580 1674)
Laura Oliván Santaliestra (Granada)
The Imperial Ambassador and His Spouse at the Theatre: The Rhetoric of Diplomacy on Calderón's Stage and in Count Pötting's Diary (1663 1674)
Wolfram Aichinger (Vienna)
Count Andrei Matveev and His Wives in Petrine
Diplomatic Practice (1682 1725)
Ekaterina Domnina (Moscow)
Ernestine Aloysia von Weissenwolff, contessa Durazzo (1732 1794): Riflessioni per una ricostruzione biografica
Armando Fabio Ivaldi (Geneva Paris)
A Spanish Ambassadress in Rome: Doña Leonor de Melo, Marchioness of Castel Rodrigo (1632 1641)
David García Cueto (Granada)
Court Lady Ambassadress Vicereine:
The Life and Career of Maria Ernestine Countess Harrach (Née Dietrichstein, Widowed Gallas, 1683 1745)
Pia Wallnig (Vienna)
PART IV
STAGES FOR MALE DIPLOMACY
"Cloth and Colour Makes an Honourable Man":
The Role of Dress in the Identity Construction of the
French Ambassador François de Noailles in Venice (1557 1561)
Laura Mesotten (Leuven)
A Turk at the Court of the Planet King:
Political and Sociocultural Controversies
of an Ottoman Embassy to Madrid (1649 1650)
Luis Tercero Casado (Vienna)
The Embassy of Seyyid Ali Efendi to France (1797 1802): The Impressions of an Ottoman Diplomat on European Culture
through his "Sefâretnâme"
Osman N hat B g n (Istanbul)
APPENDIX
Names
Places
Curricula Vitae
