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Die Spatphase der deutschen Aufklarungsbewegung stellt fur die Germanistik eine nach wie vor nur unzureichend angenommene Herausforderung dar. Wahrend Grundlagen und praktische Unternehmungen der Spataufklarung recht gut erforscht sind, wei man uber ihre mannigfaltigen literarischen Verlautbarungen viel weniger. Ohne sie aber, das immerhin ist ansatzweise erkannt, lat sich das Literaturensemble um 1800 nicht angemessen erfassen. So geht es zunachst darum, mittels wechselweise komplementaren Fallstudien zu reprasentativen Autoren einen punktuellen Querschnitt durch wichtige Richtungen und...

When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the Early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe and as one of the moving forces behind the Anthropological Turn. Research foci of the Centre have been and are Enlightenment anthropology, Enlightenment in the reference field of early modem esotericism, university history, philanthropism and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz; more recent emphasis has been on the Early...

Writing Constitutions intends to serve as a practical manual for those writing constitutions or interested in their design. It is the first systematic and universal approach to coherently capture concepts and contents of a modern constitution. Volume I breaks each constitutional mechanism into components and offers detailed designs to draft a constitutional clause. This provides lawmakers with the necessary toolkit for writing constitutions and empowers them to strengthen democracies.

 Writing Constitutions comes in three...

This volume presents articles on economic issues in the Holy Roman Empire. The specific themes examined here are monetary and regulatory policy, fundraising through lottery games, gambling debts, canonical prohibition of interest and Rentenkauf (purchase of a right to periodic payments), trade and trade prohibitions, guilds, allodification of military tenure, limitation of liability for women in the case of bankruptcy, debit commission, corruption at the Imperial Chamber Court and incomes of the judges at the Reichshofrat. The court decisions of the Imperial Chamber Court, the Reichshofrat...