“Policing” and Morality: On the State Regulation of Faith and Morality in the Policy Decrees of the Early Modern Period

2013 ◽  
pp. 241-252
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern Period

scholarly journals Merchants and States: Private Trade and the Fall of Madras, 1746

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Søren Mentz
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The State ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Economic Surplus ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs ◽  
British State

Michael Pearson has argued that “rights for revenue” was an important element in the European way of organizing long-distance trade in the early modern period. The state provided indigenous merchant groups with commercial privileges and allowed them to influence political affairs. In return, the state received a part of the economic surplus. The East India Company and the British state shared such a relationship. However, as this article demonstrates, the East India Company was not an impersonal entity. It consisted of many layers of private entrepreneurs, who pursued their own private interests sheltered by the Company’s privileged position. One such group was the Company servants in Asia. The French conquest of Madras in 1746 and the following period of British sub-imperialism in India demonstrate that the state had traded off too many rights. Through the business papers of Willian Monson, a senior Company servant in Madras, the historian can describe the fall of Madras as a consequence of deteriorating relationships between private interests within the Company structure. Directors, shareholders, Company servants and private merchants in India fell out with each other. In this situation, the British state found it difficult to intervene.

15 Legal Conceptions of Statehood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biaggini Giovanni
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Individual

This chapter traces the evolution of legal conceptions of the state. In relation to the topic, the chapter discusses the structures and boundaries of various state administrations. It first looks at the changing conceptions and characterizations of the term ‘state’ since its first appearance in writings during the early modern period. The chapter then considers the conceptions of statehood and administration together, and their implications for the Europeanization and internationalization of law. Afterwards, the chapter delves into a more thorough discussion of administration as a multifaceted concept. From here, the chapter provides some concluding remarks on the process of Europeanization as a plurality as a result of the different conditions and conceptions of administration within the individual states.

Republican Visions

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Period

This article examines republican conception of political theory in Europe during the early modern period. It explains that there were two distinct kinds of republican political theory. One was Roman in origin and the other was Greek which valued the natural ordering of the state made possible by the regulation of wealth. The article discusses republicanism in Italy and suggests that the battle between Rome and Greece defined the development of republican political theory throughout the early-modern period.

scholarly journals Fides et Ratio: An Early Enlightenment Defence of Non-confessional Religion by Poiret and his Circle

2010 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henri Adrien Krop
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The State ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
German Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Fides Et Ratio

AbstractIn 1707 an anonymous collection of treatises Fides et ratio was published in Amsterdam. The voluminous work of several authors contains a fierce critique of Locke's notion of faith and the moderate Enlightenment's conception of a reasonable Christianity. The sympathiser with mystic theology Pierre Poiret (1646–1719) wrote the general introduction. In the preface Poiret outlined a counter philosophy. However, the book deserves the interest of modern scholars because of the notions of religion and faith conceived by its authors. They are basically modern. Fides et ratio exemplifies the intense intellectual connections between Great Britain, the Netherlands and the German hinterland during the early modern period. The authors of the collection were part of an international non-denominational web. With some exceptions relations between the philosophes and the counter philosophers among the illuminati are neglected in modern research. In the final parts of this essay it will be argued that the ideas on faith and the ensuing separation of religion and the state created a common ground between Poiret and Christian Thomasius, the luminary of early German Enlightenment, who for some years had been directly influenced by the former's ideas.

scholarly journals The Idea of the Construction Police in the Historical Perspective against the Background of the German Legal Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Karol Dąbrowski
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The 19Th Century

Th Construction Police, as a task (function) of the state, is the public safety department, which ensures the safety and culture for the using of the building objects. Th institutional roots of this department date back to the age of Enlightenment, the doctrinal ones – to early modern period or even earlier and the legislative ones – to the 19th century. Ths Police is connected with the fire and sanitary safety of buildings. Building laws became the part of the code law, then of police ordinances and, finally, the separate building ordinances were issued (in cities at fist). In the German territories, the period after the Thirty Years’ war was of great importance for the development of the legislation and the building policies, together with the development of cameralism (Kameralismus) and political economy (Polizeiwissenschaft). Th 19th century was the era of codification of the building law in the form of nationwide building acts.

scholarly journals Festivities of Curfew

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levent Kaya Ocakaçan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The State ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Main Condition ◽  
Indirect Connection ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Household System

The Ottoman Empire was a dynastic state, as were its counterparts in Europe and Asia in the early modern period. In order to explain the characteristics of this dynastic governance model, it is essential to focus on how the Ottoman ‘state’ mechanism functioned. One of the prominent aspects of the dynastic state was the integration of politics in household units (For the Ottoman household system Cf.: Gürkan 2015; Kunt 1974; 1975; 1978; 1983; 1995; 2007; 2011; 2012). Direct or indirect connection of people to these households was the main condition of legitimacy. Thus, the redistribution and succession strategies had a centralized importance in dynastic states. Since being a member of the dynasty was a given category, the state could be reduced to the house of the dynasty at the micro levels. This house transcended those living in it, and in order to sustain the continuity of the house, there was a need to create a ritual showing ‘the loyalty to the dynastic household’. This loyalty was the dominant factor in ensuring the continuity of the house, in other words, the ‘state’, and therefore, the succession strategies in dynastic states had a key importance.

EARLY MODERN STATE-BUILDING, THE SCANDINAVIAN MACHTSTAAT, AND THE SHORTCOMINGS OF ANGLO-SAXON SCHOLARSHIP

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Frost
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
State Building ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Modern Period

AbstractThis Review Article discusses recent work on the Scandinavian Machtstaat, taking a critical attitude towards recent Anglo-Saxon scholarship on the state and absolute monarchy in the early modern period.

Wetlands

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Faisal H. Husain
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Water Buffalo ◽  
Ecological Integrity ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Alluvial Plain ◽  
The State ◽  
Wetland Drainage ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Wetland Resources

This chapter focuses on Ottoman policies to manage the exploitation of wetlands in the Tigris-Euphrates alluvial plain. In the early modern period, ever-more powerful empires engaged in ambitious wetland drainage projects in the name of improvement. This chapter offers a counterexample of an empire that used its bureaucratic and financial capabilities to benefit from the exploitation of wetland resources. The Ottoman administration paid particular attention to the cultivation of rice and the husbandry of water buffalo. Both productive activities became major sources of revenue for the state, and their sustenance depended on the ecological integrity of the Tigris-Euphrates marshes.

Getting to Sweden

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Nistotskaya ◽  
Michelle D’Arcy
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The State ◽  
Tax Structure ◽  
Extensive Data ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Tax State ◽  
Fiscal Contract

This chapter argues that the roots of Sweden’s exceptional tax state lie in the early modern period. From c.1530 the state began monitoring economic activity and developing a direct vertical fiscal contract between the king and his subjects. The extensive data collected by the state, with the assistance of the newly reformed Church, facilitated fairness in the distribution of tax and conscription burdens and fostered a horizontal contract between subjects. With a free peasantry and a weak nobility, the state’s relationship with the peasantry was direct and unmediated. Furthermore, late industrialization preserved a tax structure and administration based on direct taxes that could easily adapt to the collection of modern taxes. Taken together, these factors explain how Sweden, over the course of 400 years, cultivated its fiscal capacity and strengthened the fiscal contract between ordinary taxpayers and the state.

Formen der Geselligkeit und ihr historischer Wandel als Herausforderung der frühneuzeitlichen Kulturgeschichte

Daphnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Kai Bremer ◽  
Christopher Voigt-Goy ◽  
Dirk Werle
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The State ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The City

Abstract Based on a satirical poem about the asparagus mass in Leipzig by the writer Johann Christian Trömer, who wrote about the sociability in the city of Leipzig in the first half of the 18th century, this introduction sketches the thematic concern of this volume. Firstly, it provides an overview of the state of research on early modern sociability in German Studies and in adjacent disciplines. Secondly, it explains why Leipzig can be regarded as a representative place for research concerning forms of Geselligkeit in the early modern period.

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