Diplomacy and the Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy

This book explores the resilience of the Spanish Monarchy by uncovering the practices that sustained Philip IV's monarchy as a major diplomatic power between 1648 and 1660. Adopting an innovative approach, the study does not evaluate whether the resilience of the Spanish Monarchy was a success or a failure, but rather how it came about.Based on archival and library research in Spain, Belgium, Denm...