Decision-Making by Drawing Lots in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (C03)

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Drawing lots separates decision-making from the rational weighing of options and shifts it to an external level not accessible to the actors involved. Nevertheless, it can serve as a strategically used element of procedure. This project examines how lots have been applied in the framework of pre-modern processes of collective decision-making and the election of spiritual offices and municipal councils in particular. It inquires into their presuppositions, framing conditions, objectives and effects.