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Mit dieser neuen Reihe soll der interdisziplinäre und interkonfessionelle Dialog über Recht und Religion in der Frühen Neuzeit gefördert werden. Sie wird von international anerkannten Wissenschaftlern herausgegeben und von RefoRC-Mitgliedern wie der Universität Leuven und der Leucorea Stiftung Wittenberg unterstützt. Die Publikationssprachen sind Englisch und Deutsch. Die Redaktion begrüßt ausdrücklich die englische Übersetzung herausragender Werke, die ursprünglich in anderen Sprachen veröffentlicht wurden.
Das Themenspektrum reicht von Migrations- und Siedlungsprozessen über das Wirken sozialer Netzwerke bis hin zur Konstruktion mediterraner Imaginationen und zu den Bedingungsfaktoren und Ausprägungen politischer Herrschaft. Die vom »Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien« an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum herausgegebene Reihe trägt damit den Besonderheiten eines Raumes Rechnung, der auch ein großes Potenzial für die Regionalforschung bereithält.
Diese Reihe ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Verlage Wilhelm Fink und Ferdinand Schöningh.
Ab Band 19 erscheint die Reihe nur noch bei Schöningh.
Die Reihe des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes richtet sich an alle, die Hintergrund- und Orientierungswissen über jene Krisenzonen suchen. Zu ihnen gehören Soldaten der Bundeswehr im Auslandseinsatz ebenso wie die breite politisch und historisch interessierte Öffentlichkeit.
Die durchgehend mit farbigen Karten und Abbildungen ausgestatteten Bände bieten Information in kurz gefasster Form und auf dem jeweils aktuellsten Stand. Ausgewiesene Sachkenner stellen die historische Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart allgemeinverständlich dar. Jeder Band enthält darüber hinaus einen Serviceteil mit übersichtlicher Zeittafel, Literaturtipps und Internetlinks.
This article gives an analysis of the borrowing statistics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania for the early part of the Livonian War (1555–1569), until the Union of Lublin, and the social characteristics of the people and groups of people who became the most prominent lenders. The borrowing in question was conducted via pledge lordships. For the examined period, we have registered 160 pledge-lordship contracts with a stated pledge amount totalling 515,667 sexagenas of Lithuanian groats. Of these, 149 pledge-lordship contracts totalling 496,709 sexagenas were from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania proper. In comparison with the earlier period, between 1502 and 1522, revenue from pledges with a known face value increased ninefold. The total amount borrowed for this period was equal to approximately three times the yearly wartime treasury revenue. The most prolific lenders were members of the established elite. Altogether, members of eight noble houses provided 32.4% of the entire amount lent to the state using pledges. Compared to the earlier period in terms of lenders was the first appearance of burghers (Vilnius, Gdansk, Livonian) as lenders, as they were granted pledge-lordship contracts.
In 1942, when drafting a strategic cooperation treaty between the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, the foreign secretary Anthony Eden was responsible for preparing projects to solve the Balts’ problems, based on which the Baltic States could preserve limited sovereignty. This aspect has received little attention in historiography, seemingly because it is treated as an ephemeral, insignificant episode. It cannot be dismissed that the provision of a compromise with the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, which was in principle impossible, did apply. However, historical material suggests a different conclusion. This article was also inspired by Henry Kissinger’s opinion that it was the idealism of the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt that prevented Western states from reaching a compromise with Stalin.
This article reveals what went on ‘behind the scenes’ in big politics: how the Baltic States factor, in itself rather insignificant to the big states, allows for identifying the prime goal of those big states, to seek power and dominance.
In the second half of the 18th century, the problem of the indebtedness of the Jewish communities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was identified as one that could not be solved without the intervention of the state, and the resolution of this issue involved accounting the debts incurred by Jewish communities and planning their repayment. The present research is based on primary sources: handwritten accounting documents of Jewish debts in the Treasury Commission of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The focus of the paper is on issues which, although identified in historiography, have not yet been analysed: the structure of the indebtedness of Jewish communities, a social portrait of their lenders, trends in the accounting and administration of the debts, and decisions regarding their speedier repayment. The case of the indebtedness of Vilnius’ Jewish community as an institution is analysed, and shows the extremely complicated situation of the chief-communities of the Lithuanian Vaad (in Hebrew Vaad medinat Lita). The biggest challenge in the research is difficulties separating debts incurred for the needs of the community and debts connected with the chief-community’s position in the Lithuanian Vaad, the main and supreme institution of Jewish self-government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.