Introduction The Art of Embassy
Situating Objects and Images in the Early Modern Diplomatic Encounter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12622692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Um (0000-0002-7551-8942, Binghamton University and The Open University, corresponding author), Leah R Clark (0000-0002-8036-9857, Binghamton University and The Open University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-18 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Early Modern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1385-3783 • E-ISSN: 1570-0658 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700658-12342487 |
| OpenAlex | W2287878529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay makes the case that visual and material approaches may hold the key to the study of early modern diplomatic encounters, which were always undergirded by the exchange of objects and often represented (or imagined) in pictorial form. It calls for a visually and materially intensive approach to diplomacy by privileging objects of exchange, such as gifts, as crucial tools of cross-cultural mediation and communication, while also looking closely at visual representations of encounter in line with relevant textual sources. Building on recent studies that have called for a new diplomatic history, this essay situates ambassadors as envoys with a certain amount of agency and independence, rather than conveyors of fixed state positions, thus calling for a dynamic understanding of early modern embassy, which was comprised of meanings articulated not just by polities, but also by individual human actors and things
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Diplomacy · Epistemology · Independence (probability theory · Mediation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |