Abstract
Abstract On the basis of what structures, and according to what kinds of deliberations and considerations, did premodern administrations work? This article uses the example of early modern visitations in Bavaria to show how important pragmatism was in administrative practice, and how and with what consequences routines were developed. It is a plea for an interpretation of administrative work beyond current assumptions and epoch boundaries.
Highlights
On the basis of what structures, and according to what kinds of deliberations and considerations, did premodern administrations work? This article uses the example of early modern visitations in Bavaria to show how important pragmatism was in administrative practice, and how and with what consequences routines were developed
It is a plea for an interpretation of administrative work beyond current assumptions and epoch boundaries
Birgit Näther is a research assistant in the Department of History at Freie Universität Berlin. She completed her Ph.D. thesis on administrative history of the early modern period in 2015. Prior to this she worked at the Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität Munich and the University of Duisburg-Essen, and studied history, philosophy, political science and theology at the University of Münster
Summary
Bruce Buchan / Lisa Hill: An Intellectual History of Political Corruption, Basingstoke 2014; Jens Ivo Engels: Die Geschichte der Korruption. Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt am Main 2014; Niels Grüne / Simona Slanička (Hg.): Korruption. Historische Annäherungen an eine Grundfigur politischer Kommunikation, Göttingen 2010; Valentin Groebner: Gefährliche Geschenke. Politik und die Sprache der Korruption in der Eidgenossenschaft im späten Mittelalter und am Beginn der Neuzeit, Konstanz 2000. Eine Begriffsdiskussion bietet Mary Lindemann: »Dirty Politics or ›Harmonie‹? Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg«, in: Journal of Social History 45 (2012), S. Eine Begriffsdiskussion bietet Mary Lindemann: »Dirty Politics or ›Harmonie‹? Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg«, in: Journal of Social History 45 (2012), S. 582–604
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