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Követségek és szövetségek : A Magyar Királyság és a Német-római Birodalom a 16. század első felében = Diplomatic Missions and Alliances : The Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century

Péterfi, Bence (2021) Követségek és szövetségek : A Magyar Királyság és a Német-római Birodalom a 16. század első felében = Diplomatic Missions and Alliances : The Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century. VILÁGTÖRTÉNET : A BÖLCSÉSZETTUDOMÁNYI KUTATÓKÖZPONT TÖRTÉNETTUDOMÁNYI INTÉZETÉNEK FOLYÓIRATA, 11(43) (4). pp. 511-515. ISSN 0083-6265 (nyomtatott); 2732-2114 (elektronikus)

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Abstract

From different standpoints, sometimes reflecting the perspectives of the various national historiographies, the papers of the present issue all increase, nuance and deepen the knowledge we have so far had about the diplomatic relationship network between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary under the Jagiellonians (1490–1526). It is not only the factors and features that defined and characterised the policies of such distant dynasties as the English Tudors or the French Valois that are worth revisiting, but also those that guided the Habsburgs, in the immediate neighbourhood of Hungary, especially if the reappraisal is done with the help of hitherto unused archival material and of foreign scholarly works which are difficult to access for the Hungarian research. Such neglected sources are, for instance, the ambassadorial correspondence of Sir Robert Wingfield and Andrea dal Burgo, which have survived in great numbers, and which allow for very detailed analyses. The abundance of such reports is perhaps already a consequence of that professionalisation of intelligence and diplomatic practices that characterised the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries throughout Europe. It was at that time that persons entrusted with diplomatic missions emerged who, with due caution, can already be called diplomats in the modern sense of the word, that is, professionals who, instead of being sent on ad hoc missions, spent long spans of time in a given country, where they tried to gather information from trustworthy sources, and report it to the home authorities in regularly written instruments. Such extraordinary cases can provide scholarship an opportunity to prefer thick descriptions and even to go beyond theories and statements that have been treated as “matter-of-fact” or “evident”.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D3 Mediaeval History / középkor története
D History General and Old World / történelem > D5 World History / világtörténelem
J Political Science / politológia > JZ International relations / nemzetközi kapcsolatok, világpolitika
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2022 08:50
Last Modified: 25 Jul 2022 23:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/137641

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