Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West

Isabella Lazzarini is Full Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin and a member of the board of the PhD in 'Historical and Archaeological Sciences', of the DISCI department of the University of Bologna. Her research interests focus on the political, social, and cultural history of late medieval Italy and the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Renaissance diplomacy, the growth of different political languages in documentary sources, and gender studies. She is currently working at the EOS project DiplomatiCon: a Connected History of Medieval Mediterranean Diplomacy. The Mamluk Sultanate, Italy, and the Crown of Aragon (14th-15th centuries) (Liège, Antwerpen, Barcelona, Torino/Bologna, 2022-2027).Luciano Piffanelli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History and Archival Science at the University of Upper Alsace and member of the board of the PhD in 'European History and Cultures' at the University of Rome 'Sapienza'. Spanning from the 15th to the 18th century, his research deals with European politics, cultures, and societies, focusing on diplomatic practices, archival strategies, and intersections between politics, philosophy, and science. He is member of the editorial boards of the journal Legatio and of the book series In margine: Exploring Pre-modern Paratexts, and he has recently been awarded a PIR grant for his project Faire la paix. Édition et textualité des collections diplomatiques de l'époque moderne (XVIIe-XVIIIe s.).Diego Pirillo is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where is also affiliated with the History Department. His work focuses on early modern Italy, Europe, and the Atlantic world, with a strong interest in intellectual history, the history of books and reading, refugee studies, colonialism, the history of news and information.

• Isabella Lazzarini, Luciano Piffanelli, and Diego Pirillo: The Political Grammar of Agreements in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West: An IntroductionPrologue: Sources and Text Tradition1: Néstor Vigil Montes: Diplomatic Sources on Peacemaking in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West (14th-16th Centuries): Letters-Acts-Treaties2: Isabella Lazzarini: At the Roots of the History of Diplomacy: Writing, Preserving, and Publishing a Peace Treaty (1454/5-1735)Peacekeeping: Political and Confessional Pacts3: Duncan Hardy: Keeping the Peace and Defending Christendom: The Shaping of the Holy Roman Empire as a Treaty-Based Multilateral Order (14th-16th Centuries)4: Bram De Ridder: Peace and Territory in the Burgundian and Habsburg Low Countries: The Post-Revolt Settlements of 1421-1427 and 1576-15775: Klára Hübner: Giving the Heretics a Stand: The 'Compacts' and 'Concordats' of Jihlava (Basel) in the Long Struggle for a Peace Agreement between the Roman Church and Bohemian Hussites (1436)6: Francesco Senatore: Peacemaking as a Written Work in Progress: Texts and Players (Italy, 15th-16th Centuries)7: Heinrich Speich: Dealing with a Discordant Hydra: Members of the Swiss Confederation in a Constant Struggle for Good Neighbourly Relations8: Brian Sandberg: Peacemaking in the Context of Religious Violence: The Edict of Nantes and the Fragility of Conflict ResolutionPeacemaking: Foreign Relations and Religious Treaties9: Mohamed Ouerfelli: From Tlemcen to Pisa: Negotiating the Peace in 135810: David Green: A Century of Failure? Making Peace in the Hundred Years War11: Frédéric Bauden: Negotiating for Peace and Trade with the Mamluks: From Truce to Decree12: Francesco Caprioli: Invisible Treaties: The Governors of Algiers and the Strategic Use of Peace Negotiations during the 16th-Century Ottoman-Habsburg Mediterranean Struggle13: Roseline Claerr: On the Diplomatistic Nature of the Treaties of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559): Rule or Exception?14: John Watkins: On the Failure of Treaties: Bristol 1575Intersections: Law, Literature, Ethics, Philosophy, and Peacemaking15: Jenny Benham: Negotiation, Peacemaking, and Treaties: An Early Medieval Perspective16: Dante Fedele: Peacemaking in Late Medieval Ius Commune17: Timothy Hampton: Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Ratification, Delay, and the Time of Tragedy18: Michaela Valente: The Bridge of Peace: Religious Peace, Oblivion, and the Sovereign's Clemency19: Samuel Garrett Zeitlin: Peace and Treaties in the Political Thought of Francis Bacon20: Luciano Piffanelli: 'The Resurrection of a Body Whose Limbs Were Extremely Dispersed': Reframing Peace and Peace Treaties in Leibniz's Work (17th-18th Centuries)21: Diego Pirillo: Negotiating on the Frontier: Indian Treaties and the Republic of LettersEpilogue: Afterlives22: Jane O. Newman: Remembering Westphalia: Rights Talk in Times of 'Domestic Jurisdiction', 1648 and 1948