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One of the important positions in which the Jesuits regularly appeared was the role of a legate’s confessor. Some of them left behind their travel diaries (reports) on the diplomatic journeys which they undertook. The paper introduces two texts: a diary of Caspar Paschke, who accompanied the emperor’s envoy Gotthard Hellfried of Welz to Stockholm in 1700 and a relation by Paul Tafferner, who was a...
The presented article is primarily focused on the important Baroque aristocrat Count Adolf Vratislav of Sternberg and his diplomatic mission to the Swedish court of King Charles XI in 1673–1674. Sweden, as a S candinavian great power, played an important role in the power arrangement of Europe at that time. In 1675, Louis XIV started a war, thus escalating a diplomatic pressure against the Stockholm...
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