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Informationen zum Autor Jan Hennings is Associate Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest. Klappentext This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia. Zusammenfassung An examination of dynastic courts! ritual and early modern diplomatic practice that explores Russian-European relations beyond the conventional East-West divide. Bringing to life the curiously complicated encounters between foreign diplomats! this book will appeal to readers interested in the new diplomatic history! early modern international relations and Russia's place in world history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on transliteration, spelling, and dates; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Barbarous ceremonies? Russia's places in early modern diplomacy; 2. Facts and fictions: the organisation of diplomatic practice; 3. Through the prism of ritual: Anglo-Russian encounters in the seventeenth century; 4. Stage and audience: the Grand Embassy to Vienna (1698) and Peter I's visit to Paris (1717); 5. From insult to imperator: changes and continuities in the reign of Peter I; Conclusion; Bibliography.
