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Borders and Mobility in the Holy Roman Empire tells the history of free movement in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, one of the most fractured landscapes in human history. The boundaries that divided its hundreds of territories make the Old Reich a uniquely valuable site for studying the ordering of movement. The focus is on safe-conduct, an institution that was common throughout the early modern world but became a key framework for negotiating free movement and its restriction in the Old Reich. The study shows that attempts to escort travellers, issue letters of passage, or to criminalize the use of 'forbidden' roads served to transform rights of passage into excludable and fisca...
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people’s welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state’s economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues t...
This collection of essays focuses on rules and observances in medieval monasteries and provides a survey of how the efficacy of religious communities could be ensured. The volume offers a rich variety of perspectives, ranging from the role of paraenetic literature and education, the problem of maintaining obedience and the implementation of reform to the importance of architectural features and the relative merits of the eremitical and the coenobite form of the vita religiosa. While the emphasis is on the history of the Franciscan order between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, articles on other monastic communities provide a comparative approach. The volume gives a closer insight into European research projects and casts light on manifold aspects of monastic rules and observances as "devising forms of communal life."
Throughout Europe, the exercise of justice rests on judicial independence by impartiality. In Reason and Fairness Ulrike Müßig reveals the combination of ordinary judicial competences with procedural rationality, together with the complementarity of procedural and substantive justice, as the foundation for the ‘rule of law’ in court constitution, far earlier than the advent of liberal constitutionalism. The ECHR fair trial guarantee reads as the historically-grown consensus of the functional judicial independence. Both before historical and contemporary courts, justice is done and seen to be done by means of judgements, whose legal requirements combine the equation of ‘fair’ and ‘legal’ with that of ‘legal’ and ‘rational.’ This legal determinability of the judge’s fair attitude amounts to the specific (rational) European idea of justice.
Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg ist als eine Epoche des Niedergangs und Zusammenbruchs jeglicher politischer Ordnung in die deutsche Geschichte eingegangen. Zumindest auf Ebene der Reichskreise des Heiligen Römischen Reichs ist diese Sichtweise zu korrigieren. Die vorliegende Arbeit weist nach, welche hohe Relevanz die Reichskreise zur Kriegsfinanzierung und für bündnispolitische Projekte diverser Mächte über den gesamten Kriegsverlauf hinweg hatten.
Religiöse Mobilität war ein markantes Charakteristikum der spätmittelalterlichen Gesellschaft: AngehGesellschaft: Angehörige aller sozialer Schichten waren als Pilger unterwegs in einem dichten Netz von Gnadenstätten, welches das ganze Abendland überzog. Anhand von Sachzeugnissen und Schriftquellen wird in diesem Band das Spektrum der vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen des mittelalterlichen Wallfahrtswesens im heutigen Sachsen-Anhalt und seine Entwicklung vom 13. bis zum beginnenden 16. Jahrhundert am Beispiel dreier Territorien, dem Erzstift Magdeburg, dem Fürstentum Anhalt und dem sächsischen Kurkreis, dargestellt. Behandelt werden sowohl die Wallfahrtsorte und die zugehörige Infrastruktur im Untersuchungsgebiet, als auch die Wallfahrten, zu denen seine damalige Bevölkerung aufbrach.
Warum hat es kein römisches Urheberrecht gegeben? Hat der Humanist Konrad Lagus die Aequitas-Lehre bei seinem Kollegen Budé einfach abgekupfert? Worum ging es bei dem Kampf zwischen Richard Strauss und Luigi Denza? Wer streitet sich um die »Original-Sachertorte«, und was hat das Foto des toten Bismarcks mit der DSGVO zu tun? Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger aus Wissenschaft und Praxis erörtern das breite Spektrum urheberrechtlicher Sachverhalte und Entscheidungen. Inhaltlich behandeln die Beiträge die Geschichte des Urheberrechts in verschiedensten Werkarten. Dabei wird deutlich, dass der in allen Zeiten bestehende Interessenkonflikt zwischen Werkschöpfer, Verwerter und Nutzer mit v...