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Bernard Derouet was a highly specialized researcher who regularly published articles about rural French society in Europe’s most renowned social and economy history journal, the Annales ESC / Annales HSS. This translation of five selected articles allows German scholars in the fields of social and economic history to continue working directly with intellectual sources from French research.
“Peasants War,” “insurgency,” and “uprising” are applied today to an event that was labeled and conceptualized differently by its contemporaries in 1525. Starting from how hard it was for the participants to find a suitable name for their project, the study analyzes the contemporary controversy in interpreting the “uprising” in the writings of the “insurgents” and in the historiography of the aristocracy.
This volume examines the dispositive measures of law in the early modern period. Focusing on Old Bavaria, it examines the duties, functions, and rights of subjects and lords, thus providing insight into forms of political adjudication. It illuminates notions related to freedom, property, and the right to food that were not confined to local contexts, linking them to contemporary debates about basic human rights.