Introduction. Gift and Tribute in Early Modern Diplomacy

Afro-Eurasian Perspectives

Bibliographic Data

ID22202802
AuthorsBirgit Tremml-Werner (0000-0002-1573-0044, Linnaeus University), Lisa Hellman (0000-0003-0394-312X, University of Bonn), Guido Van Meersbergen (University of Warwick)
Year2020
Volume2
Issue2
Pages185-200
Publication date2020-12-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiplomatica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2589-1766 • E-ISSN: 2589-1774
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/25891774-02020001
OpenAlexW3117220966
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

Gifts and tribute have become a mainstay of scholarship on early modern diplomacy, particularly in studies of intercultural contacts. While New Diplomatic History has shown that a much wider and more global range of actors participated in shaping diplomatic contacts than was traditionally assumed, we still remain some distance removed from a truly global account of the interactive development of diplomatic norms and practices. This introduction situates the contributions in the special issue on “Gifts and Tribute in Early Modern Diplomacy: Afro-Eurasian Perspectives” within a survey of recent literature. It suggests that future scholarship on early modern diplomacy ought to focus on the ways in which global entanglements affected the structures, norms, and practices of inter-polity relations on a global scale. To achieve such an integrated account, future research will need to draw on an expanded range of voices, languages, concepts, and sources, as well as more concerted scholarly collaborations

Diplomacy · Diplomatic history · Environmental ethics · International relations · Political science · Politics · Polity · Scholarship · Sociology · Tribute · European Political History Analysis · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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