Edition of the French Correspondence of the Peace Congress of Westphalia (May to October 1648)

威斯特伐利亚和平会议法国信函版本（1648 年 5 月至 10 月）

• 批准号: 470172388
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thomas Maissen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Historisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/470172388?language=en
• 关键词: Edition; French; Correspondence; Peace; Congress

This project aims to produce a historical-critical edition of the French correspondence of the Peace Congress of Münster and Osnabrück for the period from 21 May to 25 October 1648. In this final phase of the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia, all participants had to decide whether it would finally be possible to achieve overall peace after many years of war. From the French perspective, this period had to determine whether their own political interests and goals could be safeguarded or implemented in a peace treaty whilst also taking into account how France’s wars against the Emperor and Spain could be concluded. The planned edition closes a significant gap in available sources that still exists to this day, due to the fact that the historical-critical publication of imperial and Swedish correspondence on the Peace of Westphalia is complete, but the last volume of the French congress correspondence is not. For this edition, extensive preliminary work is already accessible. It will not only provide a new and important cornerstone for the study of the Peace of Westphalia, but the documents, many of which will be published for the first time, will also allow valuable source material to be more widely available for international and interdisciplinary research on the history of modern foreign relations.

该项目旨在对1648年5月21日至10月25日期间明斯特和奥斯纳布吕克和平会议的法国信件进行历史批判。在威斯特伐利亚和平谈判的最后阶段，所有参与者必须决定在多年战争之后最终是否有可能实现全面和平。从法国的角度来看，这一时期必须确定他们自己的政治利益和目标是否可以在和平条约中得到保障或实施，同时还要考虑如何结束法国对皇帝和西班牙的战争。计划中的版本填补了迄今为止仍然存在的可用资源的重大空白，因为帝国和瑞典关于威斯特伐利亚和平的历史批判性出版物已经完成，但法国国会通信的最后一卷还没有完成。对于这个版本，已经可以进行大量的前期工作。它不仅将为《威斯特伐利亚和约》的研究提供一个新的重要基石，而且其中许多文件将首次出版，还将使有关现代外交关系史的国际和跨学科研究能够更广泛地获得宝贵的原始材料。