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Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History | eISSN 2195-9617

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Caspar Ehlers

Recht und Raum . Das Beispiel Sachsens im früheren Mittelalter

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Olga Kozubska-Andrusiv

German Law in Medieval Galician Rus' (Rotreussen)

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Vincenzo Colli

Considerazioni su Hermann Kantorowicz filologo, 87 anni fa, le sue Textstufen e Accursio al tempo d’oggi

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Ruth Wolff

Autorität und Authentizität: Zum Verhältnis von Text und Siegel-Bild am Beispiel des Rechtsgutachtens Giovanni d’Andreas vom 9.5.1329

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Osvaldo Cavallar

The Wheels of Watermills and the Wheel of Fortune. A consilium of Donatus Ricchi de Aldighieris

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Federica Cengarle

Vassalli et subditi: una proposta d’indagine a partire dal caso lombardo (XV–XVI secolo)

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Patrick Gilli

Imperium et Italie au XVe siècle: juristes et humanistes face à la dé-romanisation de l’empire

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Peter Landau

Von Halle nach Harvard. Charles Homer Haskins und Hermann Fitting

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Jan Schröder

Zur Geschichte der juristischen Methodenlehre zwischen 1850 und 1933

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critique

Bernd Schneidmüller

Vor dem Staat. Über neuere Versuche zur mittelalterlichen Herrschaft

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Karl-Heinz Lingens

Bestrittene Souveränität

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Thomas Duve

In schlechter Verfassung

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Hans-Christof Kraus

Von Lichtgestalten und Dunkelmännern

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Matthias Schwaibold

Aller Anfang ist schwer – mancher zu sehr

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Kjell Å. Modéer

Reflexionen über die nordische »Sonderart«

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Michael Stolleis

Leiden an der Bundesrepublik

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Valentin Groebner

Allwissende Kollegen. Deutsche Frühneuzeitgeschichte am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts

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Martin Saar

Der Grund der Menschenrechte

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Petra Gehring

Vielgelesenes Vorwort. Gumbrecht zur Begriffsgeschichte

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marginalia

Lena Foljanty

Europäische Höhenflüge. XIV. Europäisches Forum junger Rechtshistoriker/innen »Wendepunkte und Bruchlinien« vom 7. bis 10. Mai 2008 in Pécs

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Recht und Raum

Das Beispiel Sachsens im früheren Mittelalter

Caspar Ehlers



Abstract

Law and Territory

The case of Saxony in the Early Middle Ages Between the 9th and the 11th centuries the Saxons developed a specific consciousness regarding their freedom; initially related to the Saxon people it came to be associated with the land of the Saxons. This was accompanied by the growth of power held by the Saxons in respect to the other regna of the empire. They were able to boycott royal elections from the year 1002 onwards and thus force the newly elected king to travel to Saxony in order to win their approval in their territory. In the second half of the 11th century the Saxons endeavoured to make use of the »Saxon freedom« as a right of opposition against the Salian Kings, which precipitated a war with Henry IV, although he was simply trying to establish his own rights as a king within the eastern parts of Saxony (i. e. the reoccupation of the former Ottonian crown domain in and around the Harz mountains, which Henry had inherited). For that reason the war was limited to the eastern parts of Saxony and Thuringia in addition to the lands of the opposition in southern Germany, while Westphalia, for instance, was not touched. Nevertheless, the conflict has been known until our own times as »Henry’s IV war with the Saxons«. This is the result of writing history in the 11th century. In an epoque without states, this is a strong indication how the perception of space changed, intensified and led to the concept of territory. Henry IV was not able to successfully meet this challenge and was never able to develop an appropriate response – as did perhaps all his successors on the German throne.

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Citation:

Ehlers, Caspar, Recht und Raum , in: Rechtsgeschichte: Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte Rg 13 (2008) 12-24, online: http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/rg13/012-024