Early Modern Diplomacy<p>His project on Swedish <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/consuls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consuls</span></a> points to something that seems to be a characteristic of Scandinavian <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/emdiplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emdiplomacy</span></a>: the very close connection between <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/diplomatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomatic</span></a> activities and (maritime) <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> interests, commercial <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a> in other words. </p><p>Permanent <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/embassies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>embassies</span></a> in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Scandinavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scandinavia</span></a> developed relatively slowly. It was not before the 1600s that <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/resident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resident</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/diplomats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomats</span></a> became a feature of Scandinavian <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a>. We know much more about the foreign <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/envoys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>envoys</span></a> in the North than about Scandinavian diplomats at foreign places. Writing about <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earlymodern</span></a> Danish and Swedish <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a> is not easy, as Scandinavia seems to be a blind spot in the historiography on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earlymodern</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a> and for <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NewDiplomaticHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewDiplomaticHistory</span></a>. But Martin manages to cover a wide time span from the end of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MiddleAges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleAges</span></a> to the 18th century. (5/5) </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/emdiplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emdiplomacy</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/historikerinnen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>historikerinnen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/earlymodern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>earlymodern</span></a></span></p>