Electoral capitulations 1519 to 1792

除了神圣罗马帝国和教会领地之外，威尼斯共和国、波希米亚、匈牙利、丹麦、瑞典和波兰都有选举投降。从近代开始，每一位罗马日耳曼帝国的民选元首都必须在加冕前宣誓，这些选举投降书为人们了解旧帝国和欧洲历史的政治、法律、宪法和教会历史提供了洞见。它们都是帝国的最新宪法，也是一种政府纲领，由选举人以未来帝国元首的名义制定。它们界定了皇帝的管辖范围，反映了其选民的目标，旨在发展其领土治理。通过学院信件，选举人创造了一个额外的工具来阐明帝国地产的主张。在前现代时代，选举投降——特权选民与未来统治者之间的契约——是精神和世俗国家宪政历史的核心文件。我们可以把它们看作是现代宪法道路上的重要一步。历史批判版的17份选举投降书和选举人的合议书信第一次以可靠的方式提供了德国和欧洲历史的中心资料。通过全文和索引搜索这些资源的能力将开发各种主题和学科远远超出了历史领域。除了数字版之外，还有印刷版，这将包括学术图书馆和档案馆的标准。

Except in the Holy Roman Empire and the ecclesiastical territories there were electoral capitulations in the Venetian Republic, in Bohemia, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden and Poland. The electoral capitulations, which since the beginning of the modern era each elected head of the Roman German Empire had to swear to before his coronation provide insights for the political, legal, constitutional and ecclesiastical history of the Old Empire and the history of Europe. They were both, the most recent constitution of the Empire, and a kind of government program, formulated by the electors in the name of the future head of the Empire. They defined the limits of the jurisdiction of the emperor and reflect the goals of its electoral voters, which aimed at the development of its territorial governance. Through the collegiate letters the electors created an additional instrument to articulate claims of the Imperial Estates. For the pre-modern era, the electoral capitulations - contracts between the privileged voters and the future rulers - for the spiritual and temporal states are central documents of the constitutional history. We can see them as an important step on the road to modern constitutions. The historical-critical edition of the 17 electoral capitulations and collegiate letters of the electors make central sources for German and European history for the first time in a reliable way provide. By full-text and index search capabilities of these sources will be developed for a variety of topics and disciplines far beyond the field of history. In addition to the digital edition comes a printed version, which will include to the standard of academic libraries and archives.