Monday 9 December 2013

Welcome!






Welcome to the site for our forthcoming international roundtable, 'Contacts, Encounters, Practices: European-Ottoman Diplomacy, 1500-1800', which will be held at the University of St Andrews on 24 June 2014. 

We are in the early stages of putting together our programme, but we are happy to say that we have received positive confirmations from almost all of our invited speakers. We hope to have a provisional programme up here in early 2014.


This intention behind this roundtable is to explore how diplomacy was practiced between the early modern Ottoman Empire and European states, and to consider how we as historians approach such topics. We are particularly interested in networks and logistics, as well as rhetoric and material cultures. 

Some content has already been put up about the conference, but any questions  that aren't answered here can be directed to Michael Talbot (mht3 at st-andrews.ac.uk) or Phil McCluskey (p.mccluskey at sheffield.ac.uk)



Francis Smith, The Grand Vizier Giving Audience to the English Ambassador, c.1760 (picture from Wikimedia Commons)





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