Introduction: Practices of Diplomacy. Jan Hennings and Tracey A. Sowerby
Part 1 Status and Sovereignty Beyond the State
1. Burgundian Clients in the South-Western Holy Roman Empire, 1410-1477: Between International Diplomacy and Regional Political Culture. Duncan Hardy
2. Transylvanian Envoys at Buda: Provinces and Tributaries in Ottoman International Society. Gábor Kármán
3. The City whose "ships sail on every wind": Representations of Diplomacy in the Literature of Early Modern Ragusa (Dubrovnik). Lovro Kun¿evi¿
4. Staged Sovereignty or Aristocratic Values? Diplomatic Ceremonial at the Westphalian Peace Negotiations (1643-1648). Niels F. May
Part 2 Familiarity, Entertainment, and the Roles of Diplomatic Actors
5. Wondrous Welcome: Materiality and the Senses in Diplomatic Hospitality in Sixteenth-century Genoa. Giulia Galastro
6. Sincerity, Sterility, Scandal: Eroticizing Diplomacy in Early Seventeenth-century Opera Librettos at the French Embassy in Rome. Katharina N. Piechocki
7. 'Minister-like Cleverness, Understanding and Influence on Affairs': Ambassadresses in Everyday Business and Courtly Ceremonies at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century. Florian Kühnel
8. The Merchant-Diplomat in Comparative Perspective: Embassies to the Court of Aurangzeb, 1660-1666. Guido van Meersbergen
9. Trans-imperial Familiarity: Ottoman Ambassadors in Eighteenth-Century Vienna. David Do Paço
Part 3 Objects and Beasts
10. Presenting Noble Beasts: Gifts of Animals in Tudor and Stuart Diplomacy. Felicity Heal
11. Gift Exchange, Self-representation, and the Political Use of Objects During Ferdinand the Catholic's Reign. Germán Gamero Igea
12. Merchant-Kings and Lords of the World: Diplomatic Gift-exchange between the Dutch East India Company and the Safavid and Mughal Empires in the Seventeenth Century. Frank Birkenholz
13. The Failed Gift: Ceremony and Gift-giving in Anglo-Russian Relations, 1660-1664. Jan Hennings
Afterword: From Social Status to Sovereignty-Practices of Foreign Relations from the Renaissance to the Sattelzeit. Christian Windler