Translation in Early Modern Diplomacy

Introduction: Translation in Early Modern Diplomacy Part 1: Translation in Peace Negotiations 1. Translation and Papal Peace Mediation at the Congresses of Muenster and Nijmegen 2. Interpreters and Their Multiple Roles during the Carlowitz Peace Congress (1698-1699) 3. Diplomacy, Languages, and the European Balance: Negotiations at the Congress of Soissons (1728-1729) Part 2: Diplomatic Contacts between Christian and Non-Christian Countries 4. Can I Have Your Word?: Foreign Terms in Seventeenth-Century Treaties of the Dutch East India Company 5. "I have no one who can translate and understand these letters": Diplomatic Communication Challenges in Ukraine's Relations with the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century 6. Challenges and Innovations in Diplomatic Translation: The Russian Mission in the Ottoman Empire (Late Seventeenth - Early Eighteenth Centuries) Part 3: Policies, Cultures and Institutions 7. Translating Diplomacy: The Role of Translators in the Ambassadorial Chancery in Seventeenth-Century Russia 8. From Apprenticeship to Expertise: Translator Training in Russia (First Half of the Eighteenth Century) 9. Diplomatic Affairs, Translation Processes and Political Decision-Making at the Eighteenth-Century Swedish Diet 10. Translation and Professionalisation: The Case of the French Secretariat of State for Foreign Affairs in the Eighteenth Century Part 4: Family and Individual Strategies 11. The Business of Translation: The Gracians and the Monopoly of Diplomatic Translation Services at the Spanish Court 12. Between Diplomacy and Literature: Pavel Levashev's Translations, Career Strategies, and the Development of Russian Diplomatic Language