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Clark, Leah and Um, Nancy
(2016).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342487
Abstract
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.
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- Item ORO ID
- 45168
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1570-0658
- Keywords
- diplomacy; embassy; gift; art; art history; material culture
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Art History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
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- © 2016 Koninklijke Brill NV
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- Leah Clark