Politische Repräsentation und Partizipation / Rappresentanza politica e partecipazione

Glaube und Politik – die Adelskorporation in den bayerischen Landständen im 16. Jahrhundert

Gabriele Greindl

Abstract

In the crucial phase on the way to building a modern state and becoming an authoritarian dukedom, Bavaria was characterized firstly by a combination of politics and religion and secondly by the leadership of the Lutheran high nobility in the so called “Landschaft”, the “Landstände” the pre-parliamentarian institution of political participation. The nobility's right of co-determination along with the dukes was laid down in 1311 in the “Ottonische Handveste”, also known as the “Magna Charta of Bavaria”. In the following decades, the deputies of towns, marketplaces and clergy established separate “Korporationen”, political ...