Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire

By Luca Scholz,

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In the Holy Roman Empire 'no prince... can forbid men passage in the common road', wrote the English jurist John Selden. In practice, moving through one the most fractured landscapes in human history was rarely as straightforward as suggested by Selden's account of the German 'liberty of passage'.

Across the…

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1 author picked Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I like Borders and Freedom because Scholz shows a different way of interpreting political borders and territories.

Most people would think that toll stations would be located at the boundary between states. But Scholz illustrates how they were actually located well within the borders of political territories because channeling movement was far more important than maintaining fixed boundaries.

From Mark's list on borderland mobility.

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