Dr Toby Osborne's Outputs (30)

Papal Diplomacy during and since the Ancien Régime (2025)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2025). Papal Diplomacy during and since the Ancien Régime. In J. Rollo-Koster, R. A. Ventresca, M. H. Eichbauer, & M. Pattenden (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Papacy (618-644). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108750608.029

European diplomacy changed significantly during the Ancien Régime. Sovereign powers made increasing use of different categories of ambassadors while grappling with religious division, international conflict, and emerging globalization. Papal diplomac... Read More about Papal Diplomacy during and since the Ancien Régime.

European Diplomacy and the Early Modern Court (2023)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2024). European Diplomacy and the Early Modern Court. In D. Goetze, & L. Oetzel (Eds.), Early Modern European Diplomacy: A Handbook (403-418). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-020

Diplomatic Ceremonial in Early Modern Europe (2023)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2024). Diplomatic Ceremonial in Early Modern Europe. In D. Goetze, & L. Oetzel (Eds.), Early Modern European Diplomacy (579-592). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-030

Whither Diplomatic History? An Early Modern Historian's Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Osborne, T. (2019). Whither Diplomatic History? An Early Modern Historian's Perspective. Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 1(1), 40-45. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-00101007

Early modernists have been among the most early and active contributors to the establishment of New Diplomatic History. How has their work affected that on other periods, and how might it continue to do so? How have such extensive histories written d... Read More about Whither Diplomatic History? An Early Modern Historian's Perspective.

Diplomatic culture in early modern Rome (2019)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2019). Diplomatic culture in early modern Rome. In P. Jones, S. Ditchfield, & B. Wisch (Eds.), A companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692 (60-74). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004391963_005

Diplomatic Ceremonial (2018)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2018). Diplomatic Ceremonial. In G. Martel (Ed.), The encyclopedia of diplomacy. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0409

Since late antiquity, diplomacy has been subject to various protocols governing the treatment of ambassadors and their behavior. With the gradual spread of new ways of doing diplomacy, and the increasing correlation of diplomacy with sovereignty duri... Read More about Diplomatic Ceremonial.

Confessional (Reformation) Diplomacy (2018)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2018). Confessional (Reformation) Diplomacy. In G. Martel (Ed.), The encyclopedia of diplomacy. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0404

Confessional diplomacy is a term used by historians principally to characterize European diplomacy, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, in the wake of the Reformation, usually up to the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. In a context where emergi... Read More about Confessional (Reformation) Diplomacy.

The Thirty Years' War (2018)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2018). The Thirty Years' War. In G. Martel (Ed.), The encyclopedia of diplomacy. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0486

The Thirty Years' War is the catch‐all term used to describe the wars that engulfed parts of Europe and beyond between 1618 and 1648. The core of the war was fought over various constitutional and, to a degree, religious, issues in the Holy Roman Emp... Read More about The Thirty Years' War.

Treaty of Westphalia/Peace of Münster (1648) (2018)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2018). Treaty of Westphalia/Peace of Münster (1648). In G. Martel (Ed.), The encyclopedia of diplomacy. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0495

In 1648, three major peace treaties were concluded, the first between Spain and the Dutch Republic (January 30), and then the second and third treaties, agreed later in the year on the same day (October 24), involving the Holy Roman Empire, France, a... Read More about Treaty of Westphalia/Peace of Münster (1648).

Translation, International Relations and Diplomacy (2018)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2018). Translation, International Relations and Diplomacy. In S. Harding, & O. Carbonell Cortés (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of translation and culture (517-532). Routledge

England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural relations under the early Stuarts (2017)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2017). England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural relations under the early Stuarts. In P. Bianchi, & K. Wolfe (Eds.), Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour (25-26). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316556276.004

Delineating Early Modern Factions: A Unique 17th Century Document (2017)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2017). Delineating Early Modern Factions: A Unique 17th Century Document. In R. González Cuerva, & A. Koller (Eds.), A Europe of courts, a Europe of factions : political groups at early modern centres of power (1550-1700) (219-250). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004350588_012

Anthony van Dyck: A Painter-Diplomat of the Thirty Years' War? (2016)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2016). Anthony van Dyck: A Painter-Diplomat of the Thirty Years' War?. In L. Duerloo, & M. Smuts (Eds.), The Age of Rubens. Diplomacy, Dynastic Politics and the Visual Arts in Early Seventeenth-Century Europe (181-196). Brepols Publishers

Introduction: Diplomacy and Cultural Translation in the Early Modern World (2016)
Journal Article
Osborne, T., & Rubiés, J. (2016). Introduction: Diplomacy and Cultural Translation in the Early Modern World. Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts, 20(4), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342502

The essays in this collection explore diplomacy as a form of cultural translation. Out of necessity, Europeans sought new ways of conducting diplomacy in the changing environment of the early modern world, as they grappled with challenges from within... Read More about Introduction: Diplomacy and Cultural Translation in the Early Modern World.

Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: the Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592-1641) (2016)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2016). Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: the Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592-1641). In P. M. Dover (Ed.), Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World (140-154). Edinburgh University Press

Language and Sovereignty. The Use of Titles and Savoy's Royal Declaration of 1632 (2014)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2014). Language and Sovereignty. The Use of Titles and Savoy's Royal Declaration of 1632. In S. Alyn Stacey (Ed.), Political, Religious and and Social Conflict in the States of Savoy, 1400-1700 (15-34). Peter Lang

1629-1635 (2014)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2014). 1629-1635. In O. Asbach, & P. Schroder (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War (139-150). Ashgate Publishing

The House of Savoy and the Theatre of the World: performances of sovereignty in early-modern Rome (2013)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2013). The House of Savoy and the Theatre of the World: performances of sovereignty in early-modern Rome. In M. Vester (Ed.), Sabaudian Studies: Political Culture, Dynasty, and Territory, 1400–1700 (167-190). Truman State University Press

Language and sovereignty: titles of address and the royal edict of 1632 (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Osborne, T. Language and sovereignty: titles of address and the royal edict of 1632

'Notre grand dessein': O projecto de casamento entre o Duque Victor Amadeu e a Infanta Isabel Luisa e a politica dinastica dos Saboia (1675-82) (2012)
Book Chapter
Osborne, T. (2012). 'Notre grand dessein': O projecto de casamento entre o Duque Victor Amadeu e a Infanta Isabel Luisa e a politica dinastica dos Saboia (1675-82). In M. A. Lopes, & B. A. Raviola (Eds.), Portugal e o Piemonte: a casa real portuguesa e os Sabóias. Nove séculos de relações dinásticas e destinos políticos (XII-XX) (211-238). Coimbra University Press