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 Bişgin | 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



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 Nİhat BİŞgİn (Istanbul)



APPENDIX

Names

Places

Curricula Vitae