


The scientific conference “From Words to Acts: Written Sources for the Reconstruction and Understanding of Diplomatic Negotiations” will be held in Zagreb on November 29 and 30, 2021 in The Galden Hall at the Croatian Institute of History.
The conference “From Words to Acts” organized by the project “Modern European Diplomacies and the Eastern Adriatic” will be held on November 29 and 30 in The Galden Hall at the Croatian Institute of History, and will bring together more than twenty Croatian and international historians dealing with political diplomacy of various European countries with the Holy See.The conference is divided into six panels that will cover historical topics from the Middle Ages to post-war diplomacy of the twentieth century in two working days. Topics include diplomatic activities of historical states in the area of today’s Europe, and related to diplomatic political and / or ecclesiastical diplomacy in the Eastern Adriatic.
On the second day of the Conference there will be a presentation of three books by Ivo Goldstein, Ivica Šute i Jadranka Neralić:
Boban Batričević, U kandžama jevrejske aždaje.
Antisemitska propaganda u Crnoj Gori u Drugome svjetskom ratu, Cetinje, FCJK, 2021.
Stipe Kljaić (prir.), Milivoj Magdić, U vučjoj jami.
Hrvatska politika od Supila do Tita, Zagreb, Hrvatski institut za povijest, 2021.
Stéphane Gioanni, Gouverner le monde par l’écrit.
L’autorité pontificale en Dalmatie de l’Antiquité tardive à la réforme « gregorienne ». École française de Rome, 2020.
This conference, originally prepared for 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. You will be able to follow all lectures via video conference with prior registration for participation in the conference via the link below.
Conference Organizing Committee:
dr. sc. Jadranka Neralić
dr. sc. Valerija Macan Lukavečki
dr. sc. Nikša Varezić
dr. sc. Stipe Kljaić
Program Committee:
dr. sc. Jadranka Neralić
dr. sc. Valerija Macan Lukavečki
We plane to publish all the lectures in the 2022.
Here we publish the presentations of the lecturers. All the presentations you can also finde on the YouTube canal of Croatian Institute of History: https://www.youtube.com/user/HIPZagreb
Monday, 29 November 2021
Jadranka Neralić – Valerija Macan Lukavečki – Nikša Varezić: Project Presentation: „MODERN EUROPEAN DIPLOMACIES AND THE EASTERN ADRIATIC“ (00_Neralic_.Lukavecki_Varezic)
Neven Pelicarić: Recent Researches in the Vatican Archives: Privileged Experience of an Ambassador (00_Pelicaric N)
First pannel: PAPAL DIPLOMACY AND THE ADRIATIC: FROM PATRISTIC AGE TO HIGH MIDDLE AGES
Ivan Bodrožić : Le origini della diplomazia pontificia e le prime iniziative diplomatiche dei pontefici romani nell’Illirico (01_Bodrozic I)
Stéphane Gioanni: Riflessioni sulla “libertas” dalmato-croata nella documentazione pontificia di Gregorio VII e Innocenzo III (01_Gioanni S)
Josip Faričić: Venice as the Mistress of the Adriatic Sea in the Light of Early Modern Cartographic Sources. (01_Faricic J)
Second pannel: 15th CENTURY PAPACY – VENICE – OTTOMANS – HABSBURGS
Luka Špoljarić: Tommaso Tommasini: The First of the Papal Legates for Illyria
Emir O. Filipović: The Collection “Lettere e Commissioni di Levante” of the Dubrovnik State Archives as a Source for Diplomatic Negotiations in the Fifteenth Century (02_Filipovic E.O_)
Leonard Horsch: Cultural Practices across the Adriatic – Ludovico Foscarini Governor of Modon 1442–44 (video lecture via zoom)
Third pannel: POPES – CHRISTIAN AND OTTOMAN RULERS. MISSIONS AND REFORMS (16th – 17th CENTURY)
Jadranka Neralić: Red Hat for Antun Vrančić: Historical Fact or Family Myth? (03_Neralic J)
Valerija Macan Lukavečki: Il vescovo Alberto Duymi Gliričić tra curialisti e anticurialisti del XVI secolo (03_M.Lukavecki)
Josip Vrandečić: Državni potajnik Minuccio Minucci i papini napori za stvaranje velike protuosmanske koalicije na početku Dugog rata (1593.-1606.) (03_Vrandečić J)
Stephan Sander Faes: Elective Affinities: Venice, Vienna, and the Ottomans in Early Modern European History (video lecture via zoom)
Fourth pannel: NUNCIOS AND THEIR MISSIONS
Claudia Curcuruto: Written Acts as a Tool of Government of the Roman Curia: The Correspondences between Rome and the Apostolic Nuncio of Vienna during the Pontificate of Innocent XI Odescalchi (1676-1689) (video lecture via zoom)
Béla Vilmos Mihalik: The Nuncio, the Bishop and the Cardinal. Diplomatic Relations between the Viennese Court and the Holy See before the Treaty of Karlowitz (1696-1699) (04_Vilmos Mihalik B)
Nikša Varezić: Buon ragione di Stato e la politica divina et humana non deve permettere ne comportare: Relations between the Church and the State on the Example of the Violation of Church Immunity in Dubrovnik in 1662.(04_Varezic N)
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Fifth pannel: „A TIME FOR WAR AND A TIME FOR PEACE … A TIME TO BE FREE“
Zdenko Dundović: Uloga nadbiskupa Zmajevića u izboru dalmatinskih biskupa u 18.st. (05_Dundovic Z)
Alexander Buczynski: The British Secret Military Mission to Vienna in 1748 (05_Buczynski A)
Slavko Burzanović – Boban Batričević: Pregovori Svete Stolice i Knjaževine Crne Gore o sklapanju Konkordata 1886. godine (05_Burzanovic_Batricevic)
Sixth pannel: POSTWAR DIPLOMACY
Branko Kasalo: Odnos britanske diplomacije prema talijanskim zahtjevima na Jadranu poslije Prvog svjetskog rata
Stipe Kljaić: Mihailo Lanović Professor of Law at the University of Zagreb in the Diplomatic Negotiations between the Holy See and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (06_Kljaic S)
Massimiliano Valente: “Pio XII and Tito: Irreconcilable Diplomacy in Wartime and Post-War Time” (video lecture via zoom)