In early modern Europe, starting in the mid-17 th century, peace treaties and other international treaties were compiled and published. This groundbreaking analysis of the creation, use, and reception of such compilations conclusively shows their critical role in the genesis, interpretation, and design of pre-modern foreign relations as well as the formation of the disciplines that studied them.

Autorentext
Benjamin Durst, Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte, Augsburg.

Zusammenfassung

The book series of the Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte (Institute of European Cultural History) in Augsburg collects contributions to the cultural history of European premodernity, its ancient and medieval prerequisites, and its consequences and continuities reaching into modernity. In addition to topics such as information, knowledge, media and communication, and historical network research, it covers questions of European cultures of remembrance and collective identities.