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Petitions, Gravamina and the early modern state : local influence on central legislation in England and Germany (Hesse)
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Kümin, Beat A. and Würgler, Andreas (1995) Petitions, Gravamina and the early modern state : local influence on central legislation in England and Germany (Hesse). In: Parliaments, Estates & Representation/Parlements, États & Représentation. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp. 39-60. ISBN 9780860785361
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Abstract
This essay hopes to throw some more light on these developments by focusing on two very heterogeneous case studies in the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It will examine the range of means employed by the subjects of the Holy Roman Empire, mainly the territory of Hesse, and England to influence the laws by which they were governed. The emphasis, however, is not so much on spectacular, extraordinary occurrences such as riots and rebellions (whose impact is by now widely acknowledged), but on the sort of routine activities which marked everyday political life all across the Continent. Having sketched (i) the differing institutional frameworks of the two case studies, we will proceed to (ii) a comparative discussion of popular participation in legislative activities and propose (iii) some general conclusions about the importance of this phenomenon for our understanding of the making of the modern state.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DD Germany | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political culture -- Europe -- History, Hesse (Germany) -- History -- 1567-1806, England -- Politics and government, Holy Roman Empire -- History -- 1648-1804 | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Parliaments, Estates & Representation | ||||
| Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Ltd | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Aldershot | ||||
| ISBN: | 9780860785361 | ||||
| ISSN: | 0260-6755 | ||||
| Book Title: | Parliaments, Estates & Representation/Parlements, États & Représentation | ||||
| Official Date: | December 1995 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.15 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 240 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 39-60 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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