Afterword: Intermediaries, Mediation, and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean

This essay thematizes the important contributions of the current volume to the study of non-ambassadorial diplomatic intermediaries in the early modern Mediterranean. It further suggests how attending to particular modalities of mediation, e.g. archiving and translation, might shed new light on processes of political, ethnolinguistic, and confessional boundary-making.