scholarly journals Useful To Have, But Difficult To Govern. Inns and Taverns in Early Modern Bern and Vaud

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat Kümin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Structural Aspects

AbstractThis essay examines the significance of inns and taverns in the early modern period. Drawing above all on a series of registers from the French and German lands of the Swiss Republic of Bern, the discussion is presented in two parts. A first section investigates structural aspects such as ownership, clientele, and the remarkably multifunctional character of these establishments. The second part illustrates the continuing growth in provision during the Ancien Régime and the limited impact of government regulation. It is argued that inns and taverns became the most prominent social centres in early modern local communities and that popular demand for their services prevailed over sustained campaigns to restrict numbers and discipline patrons.

scholarly journals Useful To Have, But Difficult To Govern. Inns and Taverns in Early Modern Bern and Vaud

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat Kümin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Structural Aspects

AbstractThis essay examines the significance of inns and taverns in the early modern period. Drawing above all on a series of registers from the French and German lands of the Swiss Republic of Bern, the discussion is presented in two parts. A first section investigates structural aspects such as ownership, clientele, and the remarkably multifunctional character of these establishments. The second part illustrates the continuing growth in provision during the Ancien Régime and the limited impact of government regulation. It is argued that inns and taverns became the most prominent social centres in early modern local communities and that popular demand for their services prevailed over sustained campaigns to restrict numbers and discipline patrons.

Before sovereignty: society and politics in ancien régime Europe

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 119-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Osiander
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
European Civilization ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the discipline of International Relations (IR), it seems to be an uncontroversial point that the passage of European civilization from the middle ages to the early modern period was also the transition from a system with a single supreme secular regent, the emperor, to one with plural supreme regents. This is implied in the ubiquitous view that the Thirty Years' War was a struggle between the ‘medieval’ conception of imperial suzerainty and hegemony over christendom and the ‘modern’ conception of a system composed of independent ‘sovereign’ states, with the 1648 peace that ended the war enshrining the victory of the latter.

Supplementary Research Sources for the ASFE Study of the Student Population in Bologna During the Early Modern Period = Fuentes adicionales de investigación para el análisis ASFE de la población estudiantil en Bolonia durante la temprana edad moderna

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Guerrini
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Abstract: Having completed a database of institutional sources relating to the University of Bologna during the early modern period (the ASFE project section titled Onomasticon Studii Bononiensis), we now aim to provide an overview of certain potential supplementary sources that might complete the picture and above all fill in areas left uncovered by serial documentation relating to the University. The Status animarum of parishes, as with personal files of professors, together with processes involving students, provide sources that will enable us to obtain a better overall picture of the Bologna University’s student population during the Ancien Régime. The research will then focus on a source as yet unutilized to this end, and this is the epitaphs in the numerous Bologna churches, where many students who died suddenly during their university years in the city are buried. Very often, these students do not appear in the ASFE database in that, as a result of their sudden death, they had not yet managed to officially enrol at the University.Keywords: ASFE project, student population, Bologna University, early modern  period, supplementary sources.Resumen: Tras haber completado una base de datos de fuentes institucionales en relación con la Universidad de Bolonia durante la temprana edad moderna (la sección del proyecto ASFE llamada Onomasticon Studii Bononiensis), pretendemos ofrecer un resumen de algunas potenciales fuentes adicionales que podrían completar el panorama y ante todo llenar vacíos que la documentación en serie sobre la Universidad no ha logrado llenar. El Status animarum de las parroquias, al igual que los expedientes personales de los profesores, así como los procesos que afectaban a los alumnos ofrecen fuentes que nos permitirán reconstruir una imagen más completa de la población estudiantil de la Universidad de Bolonia durante el Antiguo Régimen. La investigación se centrará en una fuente que hasta ahora no ha sido utilizada con este fin, y que consiste en los epitafios en las numerosas iglesias de Bolonia donde muchos alumnos que fallecieron repentinamente durante sus años universitarios fueron enterrados. Muy frecuentemente, dichos alumnos no aparecen en la base de datos de ASFE ya que, como consecuencia de su repentina muerte, no habían conseguido registrase aún de manera oficial en la Universidad.Palabras clave: Proyecto ASFE, población estudiantil, Universidad de Bolonia, temprana edad moderna, fuentes adicionales.   

Jüdisch-christliche Koexistenz in den Dörfern ausgewählter Grafschaften Frankens während des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts

Aschkenas ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben Stretz
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Jewish Settlement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Typical Picture

Jewish-Christian relations in village or small-town societies during the early modern period were framed by coexistence and conflict on three major fields of encounter: the rural economy, the practice of religion, and the social relations within the local communities. This study provides case studies of these three aspects by drawing on evidence for the two counties of Castell and Wertheim in Franconia. Analysis of three expulsion proceedings and their different outcomes allows us to add a fourth perspective to this typical picture of integration and segregation, the question of how political rule was enacted and communicated. The conditions of Jewish settlement and community life were always precarious and had to be renegotiated on a regular basis. Negotiations were influenced by the diplomatic skills of individual Jews, by the interests of the community or its leading members, of the rulers and their local representatives.

The Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Heller
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Dialectical Opposition ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractBeginning with Engels, Marxist historiography viewed the absolute monarchy in France as mediating between the nobility and the emergent capitalist bourgeoisie. More recent Marxist accounts stress that the absolute monarchy reflected the interests of the nobility. Revisionist Marxist historians have taken this perspective to an extreme arguing that, at the height of the Bourbon monarchy in the seventeenth century, a capitalist bourgeoisie did not exist. This paper argues that, in taking such a view, these historians have ignored the ongoing dialectical opposition between the forces of rent and profit in the early-modern period. As a result, they have severed the connection between the ancien régime and the Revolution of 1789. Despite being thrown on the defensive by the advance of rent and the crystallisation of the absolutist state, a capitalist bourgeoisie that emerged in sixteenth-century France survived and persevered during the seventeenth century. It resumed the initiative in the succeeding period of the Enlightenment.

Borderlands of Knowledge in the Estado da Índia (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

2019 ◽  
pp. 441-461
Author(s):  
Ines G. Županov
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
South Asia ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Ultimate Failure

Indian historiography commonly treated Iberian imperial presence in South Asia in the early modern period as a precocious and unsuccessful effort before that of the British Empire. The Portuguese (and Spanish) Estado da Índia had indeed been an exemplary “borderlands” empire. However, its territorial marginality and the ultimate failure to expand did not hamper it from acquiring a prodigious “empire of knowledge.” By centering on three categories of knowledge—medico-botanical, linguistic, and historical—this article addresses the ways of knowing, collecting, and crafting information in transcultural dialogue with local communities. It focuses on mapping the major sites and intersections through which the knowledge circulated in the Portuguese imperial global networks. In addition, this article argues that these devalued, “borderlands” epistemologies inspired in important ways both British Empire and the major disciplinary fields (linguistics, area studies, history, Orientalism) engaged in reflecting on South Asia.

Lost in Translation? Constructing Ancient Roman Martyrs in Baroque Bavaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 801-828
Author(s):  
Noria Litaker
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Lost In Translation

Over the course of the early modern period, parish, monastic, and pilgrimage churches across Catholic Europe and beyond eagerly sought to acquire the relics of ancient Roman martyrs excavated from the Eternal City's catacombs. Between 1648 and 1803, the duchy of Bavaria welcomed nearly 350 of these “holy bodies” to its soil. Rather than presenting the remains as fragments, as was common during the medieval period, local communities forged catacomb saint relics into gleaming skeletons and then worked to write hagiographical narratives that made martyrs’ lives vivid and memorable to a population unfamiliar with their deeds. Closely examining the construction and material presentation of Bavarian catacomb saints as well as the vitae written for them offers a new vantage point from which to consider how the intellectual movement known as the paleo-Christian revival and the scholarship it produced were received, understood, and then used by Catholic Europeans in an everyday religious context. This article demonstrates that local Bavarian craftsmen, artists, relic decorators, priests, and nuns—along with erudite scholars in Rome—were active in bringing the early Christian church to life and participated in the revival as practitioners and creative scholars in their own right.

From Craft to Institution: Accounting in Italy from the Middle ages to the Early Modern Period

2012 ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Professional Field

The article describes the evolution of accounting from the simple registration technique to economic and social institution in medieval Italy. We used methods of institutional analysis and historical research. It is shown that the institutionalization of accounting had been completed by the XIV century, when it became a system of codified technical standards, scholar discipline and a professional field. We examine the interrelations of this process with business environment, political, social, economic and cultural factors of Italy by the XII—XVI centuries. Stages of institutionalization are outlined.

Becoming “Indians”: The Jesuit Missionary Path from Italy to Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-50
Author(s):  
Camilla Russell
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Jesuit Missions ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Italian Provinces ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Jesuit Missionary

The Jesuit missions in Asia were among the most audacious undertakings by Europeans in the early modern period. This article focuses on a still relatively little understood aspect of the enterprise: its appointment process. It draws together disparate archival documents to recreate the steps to becoming a Jesuit missionary, specifically the Litterae indipetae (petitions for the “Indies”), provincial reports about missionary candidates, and replies to applicants from the Jesuit superior general. Focusing on candidates from the Italian provinces of the Society of Jesus, the article outlines not just how Jesuit missionaries were appointed but also the priorities, motivations, and attitudes that informed their assessment and selection. Missionaries were made, the study shows, through a specific “way of proceeding” that was negotiated between all parties and seen in both organizational and spiritual terms, beginning with the vocation itself, which, whether the applicant departed or not, earned him the name indiano.

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