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- Title
Die ländlichen Gerichtsgemeinden auf den spätmittelalterlichen Tiroler Landtagen.
- Authors
Wallnöfer, Adelina
- Abstract
The article first situates the independent representation of rural judicial corporations at the territorial diets since the early fifteenth century within its administrative, agrarian, and social context. It becomes clear that the aggressive princely policy towards the nobility, the creation of judicial districts with central administrative and fiscal functions, and the consolidation of communal structures due to fragmented manorial conditions were more important in this process than Tyrol’s alleged peripheral geography. As a result, the institutionalized practice at the diets provided the judicial communities with the means, typical of territorial estate constitutions, of influencing legislation through gravamina tabled by their delegates (Landtagsboten, Gerichtsboten). Conversely, the acceptance of princely taxes among the subjects may have benefited from their being granted by rural representatives, too. The demands introduced by the Landtagsboten related, for instance, to price limits for food, export bans on cereals, or restrictions to incomers. This way, they reflected agrarian and artisanal concerns that could differ from the specific interests of the local elite (Ehrbarkeit), who combined peasant agriculture, inns, trade, capital transactions, and office-holding, and from which, according to prosopographic studies, most of the representatives derived. Indeed, the delegates’ letters of authority sometimes also referred explicitly to smallholders (Söllleute, Ingehäusen) as their principals, pointing to local methods of selection which can be characterized as “rudimentarily democratic”.
- Subjects
JUDICIAL districts; ADMINISTRATIVE &; political divisions; PEASANTS; PROSOPOGRAPHY; DIET
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie, 2023, Vol 71, Issue 2, p23
- ISSN
0044-2194
- Publication type
Article