#ImperialDiet

Early Modern Diplomacyemdiplomacy@hcommons.social
2025-01-29

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

When talking about Imperial diets as diplomatic spheres we have to differentiate between the non-permanent diets of the 16th c that were summoned by the Emperor and could last several months on the one hand and the perpetual diet that met permanently in Regensburg since 1663 on the other hand. (4/7)

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Engraving of a meeting room with a throne for the Emperor in the middle, and the envoys of the estates around it, either sitting of standing (according to their rank)
Regensburg (Bavaria): Meeting of the parliament Reichstag in 1640. Engraving by Matthäus Merian, Theatrum Europaeum, 1640.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1640_sitzung-des-immerwaehrenden-reichstags-regensburg
Early Modern Diplomacyemdiplomacy@hcommons.social
2024-12-13

We are well informed on Lauck’s journey to #Augsburg and his stay and activities at the #ImperialDiet in 1582 due to his diary, a unique source which provides insights not only in traveling activities as well as the work and duties of a princely representative at a diet. Moreover, we can take part of Lauck’s every day-life, thinking and perception of the world. For more information see:

Maximilian Lanzinner, Warten auf den Reichstag. Lebenswelt und politische Kommunikation des hessischen Gesandten Dr. David Lauck im Jahr 1582, in: Michael Rohrschneider / Arno Strohmeyer, Hg., Bayern – Heiliges Römisches Reich – Friedensstiftung. Ausgewählte Abhandlungen zur frühneuzeitlichen Geschichte, Münster 2023, 283–310. (4/4)

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Early Modern Diplomacyemdiplomacy@hcommons.social
2024-12-13

During his employment as councillor, he also was sent on diplomatic missions. In addition to commissions that led him to neighbouring Imperial cities and duchies, he also was appointed envoy to the #Emperor in #Vienna and #Prague in 1577 and 1585 respectively. Moreover, he attended the Imperial Diets in #Regensburg and #Augsburg in 1576 and 1582 where he both times signed the final act, the so called #Reichsabschied, on behalf of the landgrave of Hesse-Marburg. (3/4)

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2024-11-21

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Early Modern Diplomacyemdiplomacy@hcommons.social
2024-06-21

@historikerinnen @histodons @earlymodern

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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Early Modern Diplomacyemdiplomacy@hcommons.social
2024-06-21

@historikerinnen @histodons @earlymodern

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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Poster of: 
Riverside Shakespeare Company The Taming of the Shrew, with Diane Ciesla and Dan Southern, 1984. Created by W. Stuart McDowell (Weimar03) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RIVERSIDE-SHREW-3.jpg

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