Supplikation als kommunikative Herrschaftstechnik in zusammengesetzten Monarchien. Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs|Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs Band 2 / 2015|

The article deals with supplications as a prevalent feature of early modern states shaping the communication between commoners and prince. Comparing the usages in different parts of the Habsburg Empire (viz. Lower Austria, Hungary, and the Southern Netherlands) it asks whether supplications were adequate tools to establish direct forms of contact between subjects in the peripheries and the courtly center. By establishing new regional public authorities (Kreisämter) in the middle of the 18th century, Maria Theresia set up the preconditions for implementing such administrative proceedings in her... Mehr ...