SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany
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SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany: Feud and the Law in the Prince-bishopric of Würzburg, 1500-1600. MSCA grant no. 101201419, funded by the European Union (2025-7). #earlymodern
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Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany: Feud and the Law in the Prince-bishopric of Würzburg, 1500-1600 | SOCRESTA | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission
SOCRESTA is the first systematic exploration of how ordinary people used violence and the law to resolve their disputes in Renaissance Germany after the 1495 ban on feud or Fehde in the Holy Roman Emp...
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SOCRESTA explores how ordinary people used violence and the law to settle their disputes, by focusing on the 16th-c Prince-bishopric of Würzburg. This German polity offers a unique window into early modern social relations, state dynamics, and the history of the feud or Fehde. (1/2)
Plebeian feuding in the #earlymodern Prince-bishopric of Würzburg was a male affair. Of the over 150 pardons for declaring or conducting a feud from the 1520s-70s, only one was issued to a woman, while three men were also pardoned for issuing defiances over claims of their kinswomen. (1/11) 🧵
February 4, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Plebeian feuding in the #earlymodern Prince-bishopric of Würzburg was a male affair. Of the over 150 pardons for declaring or conducting a feud from the 1520s-70s, only one was issued to a woman, while three men were also pardoned for issuing defiances over claims of their kinswomen. (1/11) 🧵
SOCRESTA explores how ordinary people used violence and the law to settle their disputes, by focusing on the 16th-c Prince-bishopric of Würzburg. This German polity offers a unique window into early modern social relations, state dynamics, and the history of the feud or Fehde. (1/2)
Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany: Feud and the Law in the Prince-bishopric of Würzburg, 1500-1600 | SOCRESTA | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission
SOCRESTA is the first systematic exploration of how ordinary people used violence and the law to resolve their disputes in Renaissance Germany after the 1495 ban on feud or Fehde in the Holy Roman Emp...
cordis.europa.eu
February 4, 2026 at 9:52 AM
SOCRESTA explores how ordinary people used violence and the law to settle their disputes, by focusing on the 16th-c Prince-bishopric of Würzburg. This German polity offers a unique window into early modern social relations, state dynamics, and the history of the feud or Fehde. (1/2)
The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)