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First Name
Lena
Last Name
Oetzel
Country
Austria
State
Affiliation
Institut for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna / University of Salzburg
Website URL
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/personen/oetzel-lena/
Keywords
Diplomatic History, early modern history, Westphalian peace congress, historical peace research, gender, England, Elizabeth I, political communication
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Lena Oetzel is Assistant professor at the department of history at Salzburg University. Currently, she is Elise-Richter-Fellow (FWF funded) at the Institut of Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences/Vienna. She wrote her PhD on criticism of rule during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. Currently, she is working on diplomats at the Westphalian peace congress. Her research interests focus on diplomatic history, historical peace research, early modern political communication.

Recent Publications

Elisabeth-Maria Brunert / Lena Oetzel, Verhandlungstechniken und -praktiken, in: Irene Dingel u.a. (Hg.), Handbuch Frieden im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit, Berlin / Boston 2020, 464–471.

Dorothée Goetze / Lena Oetzel (Hg.), Warum Friedenschließen so schwer ist: Der Westfälische Friedenskongress in interdisziplinärer Perspektive (Schriftenreihe zur Neueren Geschichte, N.F. 2), Münster 2019.

Dorothée Goetze / Lena Oetzel, Der Westfälische Friedenskongress zwischen (Neuer) Diplomatiegeschichte und Historischer Friedensforschung, in: H-Soz-Kult, 20.12.2019, <www.hsozkult.de/literaturereview/id/forschungsberichte-4137>.

Lena Oetzel / Kerstin Weiand (Hg.), Defizitäre Souveräne. Herrscherlegitimationen im Konflikt (Normative Orders, Bd. 23), Frankfurt/Main New York 2018.

Media Coverage
https://anno-punktpunktpunkt.de/070-der-westfaelische-frieden-und-die-diplomaten
Country Focus
England, Holy Roman Empire
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, England, Germany, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Diplomacy, Gender, Government, Politics, Religion, Women