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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 15. Jahrgang Heft 1/2025, pp. 101-117, 2025/07/06
Zeitschrift der Kommission für Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Procedure at the diets of the Holy Roman Empire was guided more by customary than by statutory law. Its consolidation from about the end of the 15th century onwards and its growing complexity meant that contemporaries, especially those who held procedural functions, felt an increasing need to record in wri-ting how the diets were usually conducted. This is probably behind a short text entitled “Notabilia”, in which an Austrian official involved in the direction of the princes’ chamber in 1640/41 noted procedural changes to what he considered to be the usual practice. The document indicates that a shift in the power balance between electors and princes, including the emperor as archduke of Austria, caused by the ongo-ing Thirty Years’ War and more than a quarter of a century without a diet, was making itself felt and was being fought out on a procedural and ceremonial level. In this struggle, customary law worked less as a legal basis than as an argumentative framework. This helps to understand how customary law could be adapted to historical change.
Keywords: Archduchy of Austria – Customary Law – Holy Roman Empire – Imperial Diet – Thirty Years’ War