Electoral capitulations 1519 to 1792

除了神圣罗马帝国和教会领地外，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。自近代以来，罗马德意志帝国的每一位当选元首在加冕前都必须宣誓，这一选举投降为旧帝国的政治史、法律的史、宪法史和教会史以及欧洲史提供了深刻的见解。他们都是，帝国的最新宪法，和一种政府计划，由选举人以帝国未来首脑的名义制定。它们界定了皇帝管辖权的范围，反映了选民的目标，旨在发展其领土治理。通过学院的信件，选举人创造了一个额外的工具来阐明帝国等级的要求。在前现代时期，选举投降--特权选民和未来统治者之间的契约--是精神国家和世俗国家的宪法历史的核心文件。我们可以将其视为迈向现代宪法的重要一步。17份选举人投降书的历史批判版和选举人的大学信件第一次以可靠的方式为德国和欧洲历史提供了中心来源。通过对这些资源的全文和索引搜索功能，将开发出各种远远超出历史领域的主题和学科。除了数字版之外，还有一个印刷版，其中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.