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Louis XIV and the Peace of Europe

French Diplomacy in Northern Italy, 1659 – 1701

Av John Condren

Del i serien Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750

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In recent generations, the study of dynastic politics and diplomatic history has undergone a revival. This field provides invaluable context for understanding international relations and focuses on aspects of cultural exchange and intellectual currents far more than previously. The “age of Louis XIV” has not been immune from this resurrection of interest in foreign policy and the conduct of diplomacy.This book is the first serious full-length study of Louis XIV’s diplomatic relations with the small states of northern Italy, specifically the duchies of Parma, Modena, and Mantua-Monferrato. Louis’s desire to be seen as a peacemaker (despite his obvious bellicosity) extended to Italy, where he asserted the French crown’s potential as a broker of peace between rival dynasties. But his evident self-interest, and the need to preserve France’s perceived traditional alliance with the House of Savoy, undermined these efforts. He also failed to defend the interests of the dukes of Parma and Modena in their quarrels with the Holy See. After apparent successes in the Franco-Dutch War, Louis believed that he could undermine Spanish influence over the princes of Italy. But his attempts to do so antagonised both the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs and the Lombardy dukes themselves, resulting in renewed war.Louis XIV and the Peace of Europe analyses diplomatic culture at Versailles and at the small Italian courts, and assesses examples of artistic exchange. It will be valuable reading for undergraduates, graduate students, and historians of the field, as well as for those interested in Louis XIV and Italian culture more generally.
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John Condren received an MLitt and subsequently a PhD in History from the University of St Andrews, after completing an undergraduate degree in Law and European Studies at the University of Limerick. He has taught at the Universities of Limerick, St Andrews, and Oxford, and is currently an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses primarily on the diplomatic, political, military, intellectual, and cultural history of the Italian peninsula, the kingdom of France, the Republic of Geneva, and the Swiss Confederacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is his first book.

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The Society for the Study of French History Book Prize 2025: Special commendation - ‘Historians of Louis XIV’s France will find in this book a prodigious range of detailed research with the potential to revise established assumptions about the geography of political power in the late seventeenth century.’‘Condren has written an excellent survey of the diplomatic and geostrategic developments in Northern Italy in the second half of the seventeenth century. He has filled a longstanding historiographical lacuna. As much as it presents a traditional reading of state relations, his inclusion and insistence on dynastic entanglements, the breath of his archival research and his lucid writing render his book a significant contribution not to be surpassed soon but merely complemented by research in its wake’ – The Seventeenth Century.‘This book will be of interest to all those who seek to better understand the late seventeenth-century diplomatic sparring between France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire that began in 1494. It will also be useful for scholars studying the interplay of large and small state relations in the style of Charles Tilly in early modern Europe. Finally, this is a welcome addition for scholars who want to know more about Louis XIV’s motives for his kingdom and his reign’ - American Historical Review, December 2025.

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