TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riches,Daniel
TI  - Protestant cosmopolitanism and diplomatic culture: Brandenburg-Swedish relations in the seventeenth century 
T2  - The Northern world : North Europe and the Baltic 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures,
SN  - 9789004240803
AV  - DD801.B689 R53 2013
U1  - 327.43/15048509032 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Religion and international relations
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Prussia (Duchy)
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture -- One Foundations, 1575–1615 -- Two Convergence, 1615–1653 -- Three Marriage Alliances: Diplomatic Culture in Action -- Four Connection, 1653–1691 -- Five The Rise of Confessional Tension: Diplomatic Culture Under Duress -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture , Daniel Riches investigates seventeenth-century Brandenburg-Swedish relations to present an image of early modern diplomacy driven by complex networks of individuals whose activities were informed by their educational backgrounds, intellectual and cultural interests, religious convictions, and personal connections. The Brandenburg-Swedish relationship was crafted not only by formally-credentialed diplomats, but also by an array of officers, bureaucrats, clergymen, merchants and scholars who conversed in the symbolic language of a common diplomatic culture and a worldview of Protestant cooperation across lines of political and denominational difference. The image of diplomacy that emerges is not one of bilateral contact between states, but rather zigging and zagging across multiple intersecting networks and ever-shifting constellations of religion, politics and culture
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004240803
ER  -