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

该分项目审查了不将安全问题委托给中央当局的后果。在帝国及其邻近地区，如瑞士联邦和荷兰，从中世纪末期到三十年战争结束期间，维持公共和平就是这种情况的例证。在最后阶段，以《帝国》为例，我们研究了法学家用来将某些情况归类为破坏公共和平的启发式方法。通过分析“地方防御者”(领土民兵)，我们侧重于将维护公共和平作为集体安全的一种形式组织起来的特定剧目。

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.