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

子项目检查未将安全问题委托给中央机构的后果。从中世纪晚期到三十年战争结束，德意志及其邻近地区，如瑞士联邦和荷兰，维持了公共和平，就是这种情况的例证。在最后阶段，以“国家正义”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“Landesdefensionen”（领土民兵），我们将重点放在维护公共和平作为集体安全形式组织起来的特定曲目上。

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.