Peacemaking in early modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648

The Congress of Westphalia has always been famous for two things: as the first modern multilateral peace conference, and for lasting more than five years. Most observers blame the failure to conclude a truce during the peace talks as the crucial reason for the length of the negotiations; statesmen on all sides, but especially Cardinal Mazarin, are held to have prolonged the conference deliberately in the hope of exploiting military success to make greater territorial gains in the peace treaty. Recently, a contrary view has sprung up that identifies Mazarin as an internationalist, almost a pacifist. In this assessment, the French military effort was incompetent, and French gains in the peace treaty minimal.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Croxton, Derek

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lynn, John A.

• Biography
• History, European

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Croxton, Derek

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591086775
AAI9702492
(UMI)AAI9702492

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19793