Hostages in the Early Modern Period (A01)

• Subject Area: Ancient History ; Early Modern History ; Medieval History
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 227068724

The sub-project explores the exchanging of hostages as a form of treaty security that oscillated between moments of exceptionalism and routine. While the focus lay on inter-state conflicts during the CRC’s first two terms, it will be shifted onto situations of civil war in the third phase. Thus, the three working assignments deal with hostages and war contributions, hostage situations/hostage-taking in the French Wars of Religion between 1557 and 1629 and the 1799 “loi des ôtages” in revolutionary France.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 138: Dynamics of Security. Processes of Securitization in historical perspective
• Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Horst Carl; Dr. Christian Wenzel, since 1/2022