Policing the Subject: Confessional Absolutism and Communal Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century Austria.
The article explores the challenges posed by confessional absolutism and communal autonomy in eighteenth-century Austria. It examines the problem of maintaining control over one's subject in religious matters and countering foreign intervention under the guise of confessional protectionism. It prese...
| Publicado en: | Austrian History Yearbook Vol. 40; pp. 71 - 85 |
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Cambridge University Press
2009
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| Sumario: | The article explores the challenges posed by confessional absolutism and communal autonomy in eighteenth-century Austria. It examines the problem of maintaining control over one's subject in religious matters and countering foreign intervention under the guise of confessional protectionism. It presents a political background of Austrian Protestantism and the Austro-Prussian contrast to understand the Habsburg religious policy. The article also assesses the implications of Prussia's political rise among the Protestant states of the empire. |
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