SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany
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SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany: Feud and the Law in the Prince-bishopric of Würzburg, 1500-1600. MSCA grant no. 101201419, funded by the European Union (Oct 2025-Dec 2027). Researcher @omandrziga.bsky.social at @york.ac.uk
It is at this point too soon to tell if the end of remissions for feuding mirrors some Echter’s crackdown against the practice or if the prior decline might have already also been the result of other avenues of redress becoming cheaper or safer for disputants to use. (3/3)
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It is at this point too soon to tell if the end of remissions for feuding mirrors some Echter’s crackdown against the practice or if the prior decline might have already also been the result of other avenues of redress becoming cheaper or safer for disputants to use. (3/3)
While there was a steady overall decline of these remissions in the 1500s, and they stopped after Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn was elected prince-bishop in 1573, contrary to entrenched belief the practice itself weathered both the Peasants’ War and the civil wars of the 1540s and ‘50s. (2/3)
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
While there was a steady overall decline of these remissions in the 1500s, and they stopped after Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn was elected prince-bishop in 1573, contrary to entrenched belief the practice itself weathered both the Peasants’ War and the civil wars of the 1540s and ‘50s. (2/3)