L’audacieux pari de Gustave II Adolphe, en débarquant à Usedom (1630), attira l’attention sur le vaste duché de Poméranie, dont l’intérêt pour l’histoire au xviie dépasse pourtant son importance comme théâtre de la guerre – les études historiques françaises manquent hélas sur cet espace. Cette introduction en présente le cadre géographique – des grands domaines céréaliers, un très long littoral dont les ports constituent les principales villes poméraniennes. Elle montre, après l’extinction de la dynastie des Griffon en 1637, l’évolution politique de cette terre baltique disputée, entre la Suède et le Saint-Empire, au contact du Brandebourg, de la Pologne et du Danemark. Elle s’interroge enfin sur les spécificités de cet espace, germain et slave, uni culturellement et religieusement.
The inseparable connection between hospitality and hostility is a central characteristic of hospitality. This article takes up this aspect and examines it using the example of Riga’s surrender in July 1710. Within barely two weeks, the city and its inhabitants changed their legal status twice: from a besieged to an occupied city and from occupied to Russian subjects. These transformations were embedded in forms of ritualized hospitality in which attackers and besieged, occupied and new rulers met. While the provision of hostages in the course of the negotiations on the surrender of the city enabled non-hostile communication and were intended to ensure the success of the negotiations, the entry of the Russian General Field Marshal Sheremetev into the city of Riga ten days later transformed Riga into a Russian city and its inhabitants into Russian subjects. It thus served to display Russian rule and secure it.
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