Die Reichstage unter Karl V. Verfahren und Verfahrensentwicklung 1521–1555

The specific forms, procedures and mechanisms of political consultation and decision-making have long been key topics in the research on late medieval and early modern imperial assemblies (Reichstage). For some time, the emphasis was on constitutional history and its focus on legal aspects of decision-making—the legal basis for passing resolutions that were binding for all imperial estates (Reichsstände), or the modalities of decision-making such as princely consensus, the majority principle and the harmonization of curial votes (Relation und Correlation). In recent years, however, a ‘new political history’ has described the exercise of political power in terms of a ‘culture of demonstration and staging’. In consequence, the ways of looking at pre-modern imperial assemblies, their procedures, ceremonies and disputes concerning rank have significantly changed—not least as a result of the research Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger and her colleagues conducted in the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems’ based at Münster.

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