Public peace – Renunciation of Violence and Federal Order in the Early Modern Period (B01)

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

The sub-project examines the consequences of not delegating security problems to a central authority. This situation is exemplified by the maintenance of public peace from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Thirty Years' War in the Reich and as its neighbouring areas, such as the Swiss Confederation and the Netherlands. In the final phase, using the ‘Reichsjustiz’ as an example, we examine the heuristics used by jurists to classify certain situations as a breach of public peace. By analysing “Landesdefensionen” (Territorial Militias), we focus on a specific repertoire with which the maintenance of public peace was organised as a form of collective security.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 138: Dynamics of Security. Processes of Securitization in historical perspective
• Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Horst Carl