„Das Recht klebt an dem Gut“

Adlige Landtagsberechtigung und Vorstellungen frühneuzeitlicher Verfassungen vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert

Elizabeth Harding

Abstract

This contribution deals with noble estates (Rittergüter) as a key to trace concepts of early modern political diets (Landtagsversammlungen) and their political and social backgrounds. In the early modern period, noble aspirants who wanted to become members of a noble corporation and attend a provincial diet increasingly had to present proof that they possessed such an estate. This was a new requirement and a means to exclude aspirants not accepted by nobles but wanting to join the political corporations. By focusing on various contexts in which this new rule was in practice and ...

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