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“What You Won’t Read in Baedeker. A Short Travel Guide through the Eastern Zone” (1947)
in: Occupation and the Emergence of Two States (1945-1961)

Crowded Cities, Deserted Countryside (July 9, 2015)
in: A New Germany (1990-2023)

Emperor Joseph II’s Penal Patent [Strafpatent] governing Manorial Courts in the Countryside (September 1, 1781)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

Prussian “Soldier King” Frederick William I Instructs his Officials on Peasant Colonization in East Prussia (July 2, 1718)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

Frederick II (“the Great”), Memorandum to the Administration of Electoral Brandenburg on the Landlord-Peasant Relationship (1755)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden, Proclamation of the Abolition of Serfdom in Baden (July 23, 1783)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

Emperor Joseph II’s Patent on Serfdom [Leibeigenschaft] (November 1, 1781)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

The Prussian Regulation Edict of 1811 (September 14, 1811)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

The Legal Status of Subject Villagers in Prussia, as reflected in the General Law Code for the Prussian States (1794)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

The Prussian “October Edict” of 1807 (October 9, 1807)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

Jérôme [Hieronymus] Napoleon, King of Westphalia, Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in the French Satellite Kingdom of Westphalia (January 23, 1808)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in Schleswig-Holstein (December 19, 1804)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

The Prussian Declaration of 1816, modifying the Regulation Edict of 1811 (May 29, 1816)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

“The Education of the Countryman in Lippe” (1789)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

A Protestant Pastor on Courtship and Marriage among Propertied Farmers and Tenant Farmers in Westphalia (1786)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

On Child Rearing in the Villages of the Southern German Principality of Ansbach (1787)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)

Rural Schools (August 14, 1675)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

Village Violence, Imperial Justice—Wolfisheim (Alsace) (1524/25)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

An Abbot Negotiates with his Rural Subjects—Weingarten (Upper Swabia) (1432)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

The Grievances of Rural Subjects—Kempten (Upper Swabia) (1492)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

Codifying Customary Law—Germersheim (Palatinate) (16th Century)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

A Rural Commune Organizes its own Affairs—Ingenried (Bavaria) (1549)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

A Commune’s Oath of Loyalty—Herbolzheim (Upper Rhine) (16th Century)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

Religious Peace in a Rural Commune—Zizers in Graubünden (November 10, 1616)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)

Taking Control of Village Religion—Wendelstein (Franconia) (October 19, 1524)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)