Security and "gute policey" in early modern Europe: concepts, laws and instruments

Abstract: "The article demonstrates that the development of 'security' as a leading category and main field of state activity in the Early Modern Era was closely interconnected with the concept of 'gute Policey' and the increasing body of police ordinances. Within Early Modern administrative law as well as in the theoretical discourses of the administrative sciences, 'security' became a crucial objective of the well-ordered police state and thus succeeded 'peace' and 'unity' as a leading category. In this respect, the growing importance of security indicates the 'secularization' of authoritarian regulatory policy. In parallel to this, administrative law was characterized by the differentiation between 'internal' and 'social' security. Whereas the former focused on exterior security threats, for example mobile marginal groups, the latter manifested itself in scopes such as 'poor relief', the 'health sector' and measures dealing with risks and hazards including bad harvests, epidemic plagues

Objekt anzeigen

• Weitere Titel: Sicherheit und "gute Policey" im frühzeitlichen Europa: Konzepte, Gesetze und Instrumente
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Security and "gute policey" in early modern Europe: concepts, laws and instruments ; volume:35 ; number:4 ; year:2010 ; pages:41-65 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 35, Heft 4 (2010), 41-65

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Politik ; Recht ; Öffentliche Verwaltung ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Geschichte

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Härter, Karl

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.35.2010.4.41-65
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-321126
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.