"Udel" and Other Forms of Surety : Stability at a High Price

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F23%3A00134233" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/23:00134233 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.78555" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.78555</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SHB2023-1-6" target="_blank" >10.5817/SHB2023-1-6</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Udel" and Other Forms of Surety : Stability at a High Price
Original language description
The article deals with guarantee amounts called "Udel", an amount of money paid (or promised) by noble citizens of towns in upper Germany at their admission to citizenship (13th-16th c.). The guarantee sum was agreed contractually and replaced the condition of home ownership within the city walls partly or entirely. The sum was kept by the cities as a pledge for good conduct. In conflict times, nobles (as well as abbeys) often wanted to give up citizenship for political reasons before the agreed minimal term time. In this case, the amount was forfeit. After wars Burgrechte as contracted naturalisations with sometimes huge guarantee sums were part of the peace treaties and formed by their presence a burden for future agreements and relations. The Leading questions of the paper are: What is an Udel and where can it be found? How does it fit in the political, financial and fiscal structures of the cities and its partners? Were there alternatives to citizenship with an Udel? How did an Udel change or superimpose pre-existing connections, feudal relations, leagues and the political landscape? The article focusses on the political effects of the guarantee amounts in medieval towns; examples of Berne and its surroundings underline the relevance of the widespread phenomenon.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-28415X" target="_blank" >GX19-28415X: From Performativity to Institutionalization: Handling Conflict in the Late Middle Ages (Strategies, Agents, Communication)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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