Title :

Plurality of Diplomatic Agents in Premodern Literature on the Ambassador

Author(s) :

Fedele, Dante [Auteur]
Centre d'histoire judiciaire [CHJ]
Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire (CHJ) - UMR 8025

Scientific editor(s) :

Ebben, Maurits
Sicking, Louis

Book title :

Beyond Ambassadors. Consuls, Missionaries, and Spies in Premodern Diplomacy

Issue number :

Rulers & Elites. Comparative studies in governance

Pages :

38-59

Publisher :

BRILL

Publication place :

Leiden/Boston

Publication date :

2020-09-07

ISBN :

9789004438989

English keyword(s) :

late medieval diplomacy
early modern diplomacy
secret agents
ius gentium
consuls
Meraviglia Giovanni Alberto (d. 1533)
treatises on the ambassador

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Droit
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire

English abstract : [en]

Early Modern Times saw a blossoming across Europe of the literature on the ambassador, the roots of which can be traced back to the late medieval ius commune literature. These works played a pivotal role in the problematization ...
Show more >Early Modern Times saw a blossoming across Europe of the literature on the ambassador, the roots of which can be traced back to the late medieval ius commune literature. These works played a pivotal role in the problematization of numerous aspects of this office, and more broadly of diplomatic activity, and contributed significantly to the development of early modern scholarship on the ius gentium. In these texts, the main subject is the ambassador as an official, fully-fledged diplomatic agent, whose status and activity are consistently promoted. However, other semi-diplomatic and semi-official agents are also contemplated in a number of passages. This contribution focuses on these passages and on the several figures that emerge from them, examining the discussion about the lawfulness of their use, their legal status and the protection they could expect to enjoy during their mission. It aims to demonstrate that, despite its attempts to limit diplomatic activity to the ambassador as the only official agent, diplomatic theory could not avoid considering the other figures who were very often entrusted with essential tasks in the diplomacy of the time, and whose employ inevitably raised questions amongst jurists and political thinkers.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS

Collections :

• Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire (CHJ) - UMR 8025

Submission date :

2020-09-08T14:45:11Z
2020-09-08T14:49:50Z
2020-11-03T14:34:49Z