Languages of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World

Gleb Kazakov is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Eastern European History, Historical Institute, Justus Liebig University of Gießen, Germany. He is the author of Die Moskauer Strelitzen-Revolte 1682: diplomatische Spionage, Nachrichtenverkehr und Narrativentransfer zwischen Russland und Europa (Stuttgart, 2021) (The Moscow streltsy revolt of 1682: Diplomatic espionage, circulation of news and transfer of narratives between Russia and Europe).Vladislav Rjéoutski is Gerda Henkel Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris, France, he served as principal investigator of the DFG-funded research project on the languages of diplomacy in eighteenth-century Russia. He is co-author (with Derek Offord and Gesine Argent) of The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History (2018).

• List of FiguresAbout the Authors I Introduction 1. Languages of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World. An IntroductionGleb Kazakov and Vladislav Rjéoutski II German-Speaking States and the Growing Role of French in European Diplomacy 2. German and French in the Diplomacy of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1700–1730Gleb Kazakov 3. The ‘Linguistic Turn’ in Diplomacy in Prussia under Frederick IITatjana Trautmann 4. Languages in the Diplomatic Correspondence between France and Territories of the Holy Roman EmpireNina Pösch III Linguistic Policies, Language Practices, and Diplomatic Careers 5. Models and Practices of Language Use at the Peace Congresses of the Seventeenth CenturyGuido Braun 6. “Write in no Foreign Language but Solely and Only in Swedish”: Languages of Internal Communication in Swedish Diplomacy, c. 1700–1792Sophie Holm 7. An Empire on the Wane? Language Use and Linguistic Policy in Eighteenth-Century Spanish DiplomacyVladislav Rjéoutski 8. Language and Career: Karl and Ivan Simolins in the Diplomatic Service of the Russian EmpireMaria A. Petrova9. Language Choice in Eighteenth-Century Diplomatic Ciphers from EuropeMichelle Waldispühl and Beata Megyesi IV Languages in Contacts between European and Non-European Powers 10. Linguistic Practice in Dutch Diplomacy in Taiwan, 1624–1662Christopher Joby 11. The Eloquence of Ottoman Diplomacy: How Ottomans Acquired and Used Languages in the Eighteenth Century Irena Fliter 12. Language and Legitimacy: The Entry of American Diplomats into the Francophone World of Diplomacy, 1775–1800Ellen R. Welch and Jonathan Singerton Index