Date: 2020
Type: Book
Borders and freedom of movement in the Holy Roman empire
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
SCHOLZ, Luca, Borders and freedom of movement in the Holy Roman empire, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70579
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Borders and Mobility in the Holy Roman Empire' explores the history of freedom of movement in the German lands, one of the most fractured landscapes in human history. Focusing on safe-conduct, a key institution for channelling human mobility, the study looks at historical relationships between sovereignty and freedom of movement in a new light. Across the Old Reich, mobile populations-from emperors to peasants-defied attempts to channel their mobility with actions ranging from mockery to bloodshed. In this study, Luca Scholz charts this contentious ordering of movement through the lens of safe conduct, an institution that was common throughout the early modern world but became a key framework for negotiating freedom of movement and its restriction in the Empire. Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire draws on sources discovered in twenty archives, from newly unearthed drawings to first-hand accounts by peasants, princes, and prisoners. Scholz's maps shift the focus from the border to the thoroughfare to show that controls of moving goods and people were rarely concentrated at borders before the mid-eighteenth century. Uncovering a forgotten chapter in the history of free movement, the author presents a new look at the unstable relationship of political authority and human mobility in the heartlands of old-regime Europe.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction
1 The Ordering of Movement
2 Theatres of Transit
3 Boundaries
4 Channelling Movement
5 Protection
6 Freedom of Movement
-- Conclusion
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70579
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845676.001.0001
ISBN: 9780191880797; 9780198845676
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/43279
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016