Diplomats travelled to very different parts of the #earlymodern world. The reports of Imperial #emdiplomats from the #Russian court in the late 17th and early 18th centuries are edited.
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Last time, we talked about #emdiplomats constantly complaining about the weather. Besides this we find descriptions of the general climate and how it shaped the respective societies in #emdiplomacysSources.
Especially interesting is the account of Mehmed Said Efendi, envoy of Sultan Mahmud I, who travelled to Sweden in 1733. It’s the first Ottoman account on Sweden.

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Exciting day, as I not only met the dragons of Sundsvall, but presented my current chapter on #emdiplomats' debts and clientele relations at the #WestphalianPeaceCongress at the Medieval and Earlymodern Group @MidSwedenUni . Thank you for inviting me and the great discussion!
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… the weather! Summer is here! And with it lots of things we can discuss and complain about, like too much or not enough rain, too hot, too cold. #emdiplomats did that, too! 
Reading #earlymodern diplomatic correspondences you notice that the diplomats complained about a lot of things: lack of money, ailings and of course about the weather.

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#emdiplomats often included writers and artists in their networks.

https://mastodon.online/@jdmccafferty/110014858998344553

#Emdiplomats had to ensure that there was enough good wine, even in remote places such as #Münster & #Osnabrück for the #WestphalianPeacecongress. Of course this made #alcohol a good #gift + a way of discreet bribery. Moreover, it seems that there were quite a lot of #diplomats that drank too much. This could lead to delays in the negotiations because of hangovers. Other diplomats tried to use this to their advantage to extract information from the drunken diplomat. (2/3)
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In this fantastic database, you'll find also #emdiplomacysSources. #Emdiplomats were always busy reporting home and writing letters, which is lucky for us as we can analyse all these correspondences and discover #emdiplomacysSecrets.
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https://fedihum.org/@correspSearch/109874944485156217

Today's #emdiplomacy reading recommendation is a classic from the 1980s: Franz Bosbach's The costs of the #WestphalianPeacecongress (in German). It doesn't necessary look like it, but its really fascinating. Although he called it a structural history, it has so much about the #emdiplomats' daily life and is a real treasure trove for questions of cultural history. Moreover, we still don't know much about the financial side of #emdiplomacy.
https://t.co/DNClzf1kCE

#Emdiplomats usually were not only diplomats. Their careers were manifold. As todays' #emdiplomacysFaces James Stanhope shows, they were ministers, soldiers, parlamentarians. Acting as a diplomat was often just one aspect of their careers. How these different elements and experiences influenced each other needs more research.
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https://mas.to/@HistParl/109813668522072031

Writing and reporting were central tasks of #emdiplomats and often very formalised. Letter writing guides such as the one described here (https://fedihum.org/@dehypotheses/109800128926483681) were important tools to educate #Emdiplomats.
If you want to learn more about diplomatic writing practices, we can recommend the essay collection by Dorfner, Kirchner and Roll (in German).
https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/geschichte-der-fruehen-neuzeit/56990/berichten-als-kommunikative-herausforderung

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Yes, of course! Information gathering was one of the main tasks of #emdiplomacy. The bounderies between what was considered being "legal" acquisition of information, intelligence or espionage are thin lines. A lot depended on the respective perspective. #Emdiplomats are often referred to as "honourable" spies.

So, naturally, there will also be an article on #emdiplomacy, information gathering and espionage in the handbook.