Deutsche Reichstagsakten unter Maximilian I.
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Edited by:
Eike Wolgast
Die Anregung zur Edition der Deutschen Reichstagsakten geht
auf keinen Geringeren als Leopold von Ranke, den Vater der
modernen Geschichtswissenschaft, zurück. Im Jahre 1857 erklärte
sich König Maximilian II. von Bayern bereit, die „Sammlung
und Erforschung der älteren deutschen Reichstagsakten“
ab 1376 zu finanzieren. 1928 wurde schließlich die Mittlere
Reihe für die Regierungszeit Kaiser Maximilians I. begründet.
Reichstage bilden entscheidende Wegmarken der deutschen
Geschichte. Mit den Editionen der Deutschen Reichstagsakten
leistet die 1858 gegründete Historische Kommission bei der
Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Grundlagenforschung
und bietet der Geschichtswissenschaft ein verlässliches
Fundament für weiterführende Forschungen. 18 Monate nach
der Veröffentlichung als Buch werden die neuen Bände auch digital kostenfrei zur Verfügung gestellt.
During the imperial events of the period 1499–1504, there was a tension between the imperial reform movement and conflicts like the Swabian War and the French conquest of Milan. The Augsburg Imperial Diet of 1500 – with its edicts on the establishment of an Imperial Regency and an Imperial Chamber Court – was at the center of a far-reaching web of events, which also included numerous Imperial Estate assemblies held in the years that followed.
The source edition offers access for the first time to the complete structure and history of the 1507 Konstanz Reichstag. The focus is on negotiations with Rome about financing the coronation of Maximilian I and reformation of the Imperial Chamber Court. The records provide a multifaceted picture of imperial history around 1500.
This meticulous documentation of the pre-history, course, and consequences of the Diet of Worms offers new insight into multiple themes in the history of the Holy Roman Empire at the beginning of the early modern period. The spectacular failure to agree on providing assistance to Maximilian I for his war against Venice took center-stage at the Diet. The Emperor was compelled to undertake the unusual step of a public confrontation with Estates.
The two imperial councils in the last decade of Emperor Maximilian I’s rule played a major role in the further development of the Imperial Diet as an institution. The new imperial order of 1512 and the fundamental reform of the Imperial Chamber Court were important results of the deliberations. In addition, the volume provides rich materials for church, cultural, and legal historians, as well as for biographical research.
This edition contains the surviving sources on the Reichstage held in Worms in 1513 and Mainz in 1517, the 1514 judicial review of the Imperial Chamber of Justice, and the first Reich district assemblies of 1515 and 1517. At the center of the negotiations were above all efforts to resolve numerous conflicts between the estates, which made the Reichstag the Reich’s central peacekeeping entity.
At the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in 1518, the focus of the ailing Emperor Maximilian I was getting his grandson Karl elected as King of the Romans. However, the apparent success of his negotiations with the princes proved to be illusory. Papal hopes for a Turkish campaign were disappointed, as were expectations of reforming imperial jurisdiction and tackling widespread lawlessness.
