Grenzen der Diplomatie: Grenzdiskurse und Verhandlungen über Grenzziehungen zwischen Frankreich und Spanien 1635-1700

In the early modern period, the Spanish-French border regions on the European continent were highly intertwined areas of encounter and conflict, in which some regions and cities changed their sovereignty several times. This book is dedicated to the role of diplomacy in the border demarcation process. Using the example of cessions of Spanish and French territories from the outbreak of the Franco-Spanish War in 1635 to the end of Habsburg rule on the Iberian Peninsula in 1700, it sheds light on discourse and spatial constellations in a diachronic manner. Based on the diplomatic correspondence, both the discourses with regard to the development of partially powerful ideas of borders and territoriality and the discourse practices in the negotiations are examined.

Isabelle Schübel studied secondary school teaching for the subjects French, history, Spanish and politics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She completed her doctorate with a focus on early modern history and worked as a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of the Bundewehr Munich from 2021. Since 2024 she works as a teacher in secondary education.