Fatherland Rhetoric and the “threat of absolutism”: Hesse-Cassel and the Reichskammergericht (1646–1655)

Romein, Christel Annemieke

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“…These theories would be, (1) the Marxist theory of suppression of the people given by Eric Hobsbawm or, (2) the theory of Marc Raeff that state-building was developed in order to increase prosperity. See: Hobsbawm (1954), Raeff (1983).…”

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Romein¹

2021

Protecting the Fatherland: Lawsuits and Political Debates in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany (1642-1655)

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In this general introduction to the book, I discuss the key-concepts of my research on the use of fatherland-terminology. First, I introduce the problems that the current historiography on state-building poses, discuss the research question and clarify its essential parts. Second, I give a concise overview of the state-of-the-art in research on terminology and key-concepts. Third, I discuss the methodological framework and provide more information on the primary sources.

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Introduction

Romein¹

2021

Protecting the Fatherland: Lawsuits and Political Debates in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany (1642-1655)

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Political Language in the Holy Roman Empire (1500–1650s)

Romein¹

2021

Protecting the Fatherland: Lawsuits and Political Debates in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany (1642-1655)

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Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire

Mueser

2024

International Studies Review

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Territory is a distinctive feature of modern international politics, but there is little consensus over what about it is distinctively modern. Recent scholarship in historical international relations (IR) takes modern territoriality to be defined by the practice of creating and enforcing borders. Scholarship therefore dismisses the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, once thought to be the origin of the sovereign territorial state, because it did not change border practices. However, this approach ignores legal history. I argue that territory is a legal concept, and a history of modern territoriality must explain under what conditions rulers expressed their authority as territorial in nature. This article explains why the legal evolution of territorial rights (landeshoheit, iure territorii) in early modern Europe was distinctive of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE). While national monarchies asserted their “sovereignty” as non-territorial in order to capture overseas empires, the HRE developed a legal doctrine of territorially circumscribed jurisdiction within the imperial hierarchy. The Peace of Westphalia was a culminating event in which diverse privileges were recast as a single territorial right. Territorial autonomy was not only consistent with the hierarchy of the HRE but was fundamental to preserving it. This article has two contributions. First, it adds to recent scholarship on modern territoriality by explaining how legal history furnished the preconditions for ruling territory. Second, it places Westphalia and the empire’s legal history within the recent turn toward empire in historical IR. An important source for the development of international law was the internal constitution of the HRE. This prompts us to reconsider the notion that international law assumes a world of sovereign territorial states. On the contrary, early international law concerned territorial states nested within imperial hierarchy, not the anarchy of sovereignty.

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Fatherland Rhetoric and the “threat of absolutism”: Hesse-Cassel and the Reichskammergericht (1646–1655)

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

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Political Language in the Holy Roman Empire (1500–1650s)

Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire

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