Daniel Riches,<i>Protestant cosmopolitanism and diplomatic culture: Brandenburg–Swedish relations in the seventeenth century</i>

Romein, Christel Annemieke

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“…All early modern diplomats worried about these issues of truth and trust, but if we follow the urging of Daniel Riches to consider 'confessional specificity' within early modern diplomacy -here, what concerns and practices were uniquely held by papal diplomats -these anxieties directly mirror contemporary debates about truth within early modern Catholicism. 93 Stefania Tutino and others have explored debates over probabilism and related epistemological concerns, often by examining the writings of theologians, philosophers, jurists, and ecclesiastical historians. 94 Diplomats, who are rarely included in such studies, shared similar concerns about the nature of truth even if they grappled with it in a different context (foreign relations), in different genres and rhetorical forms (their diplomatic dispatches and relations), and with a distinct, if less rigorously defined, methodology (the information collection and evaluation examined in this essay).…”

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Confessional Intelligence: Early Modern Papal Diplomats and Information‐Gathering Regarding England and Poland

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2023

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This essay examines the information‐gathering practices of papal nuncios and legates to argue that they performed much of the same intelligence work, and in a similar manner, as other diplomatic agents in the early modern Europe. It focuses in particular on papal diplomats’ efforts to gather information regarding two areas that proved especially challenging for the papacy – England and Poland‐Lithuania – both of which were far from Rome and which contained large numbers of non‐Catholics, who would understandably be wary of these diplomats’ intelligence work. The essay explores the mechanisms by which nuncios gathered information, including via ambassadors, members of religious orders, and informal networks of informants; their efforts to verify the information they received; and their methods to securely convey that information to their superiors in the Roman curia.

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Confessional Intelligence: Early Modern Papal Diplomats and Information‐Gathering Regarding England and Poland

Keenan

2023

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“…Researchers have categorised various kinds of solidarity-oriented cosmopolitanisms beyond the national that still, however, retain a degree of cultural specificity. These include, for example, 'Catholic cosmopolitanism' (Albrecht, 2005: 354), 'Protestant cosmopolitanism' (Riches, 2013), 'Coloured cosmopolitanism [sic]' (Slate, 2012), 'Muslim cosmopolitanism' (Alavi, 2015) and 'Confucian cosmopolitanism' (Park and Han, 2014: 187). Cosmopolitanism appears here, thus, as a wider sense of generally lived solidarity, linked to a specific non-national imaginary.…”

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Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)

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2023

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This article analyses the representation of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021). This discussion is situated in a number of wider contexts, including literary European Studies within German and Irish Literary Studies; existing representations of European federalists/Europeanists; the actual European thought of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Heinrich Mann; and the oeuvre of the novelists Bernhard Setzwein and Colm Tóibín. It is argued that the representation of European federalists in recent novels enables us to analyse common attitudes and understandings of Europe and Europeanness in the current environment of Euroscepticism, self-questioning, and self-doubt at the institutional as well as constituent levels. It is also argued that the European federalists Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Heinrich Mann are represented as European cosmopolitans: Both are depicted as existing within a wide variety of transnational links, as remaining deeply sceptical of nationalism, especially in its violent form, and as arguing for the extension of the space of the political, beyond the national. Their depiction is, thus, of intellectual figures who laid some of the ideational groundwork for the creation of later European institutions, undertaking this reflective task from the perspective of an idealistic, pacifist and deeply democratic cosmopolitanism.

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Daniel Riches,Protestant cosmopolitanism and diplomatic culture: Brandenburg–Swedish relations in the seventeenth century

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Confessional Intelligence: Early Modern Papal Diplomats and Information‐Gathering Regarding England and Poland

Confessional Intelligence: Early Modern Papal Diplomats and Information‐Gathering Regarding England and Poland

Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)

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