ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021
The Diplomacy of Small States in Early Modern South-eastern Europe
This project aims at producing a synoptic analysis of the foreign policy of small states in early modern South-eastern Europe. For centuries, the rulers of the Crimea, Moldavia and Wallachia, Ragusa, Transylvania, and Cossack Ukraine had to cope with their difficult geo-political situation of being at the borderlands between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. The project will be the first attempt for writing a comparative history on the following questions. 1, What kind of strategies these small states followed in order to overcome their vulnerability and survive on the frontier not only of empires but also of civilisations? 2, What was the impact of being placed at cultural…
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