Images - State and Society

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1.	The Princely Councilor (1698) Under patriarchal and absolutist rule, subjects had the opportunity to approach their sovereign or his advisers with grievances or requests. At appointed hours, petitioners were permitted to submit....
2.	Edict on Keeping Out and Banishing “Useless Riff-Raff” (December 10, 1720) In the context of mercantilist or cameralist policies that aimed to increase revenues, absolutist states asserted control over the social and economic lives of their subjects. Frequently, they published....
3.	Giving to the Sick and the Needy (1750) “Housefather” literature [Hausväterliteratur] reached its peaked in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Works in this genre provided instruction on the proper management of....
4.	A Tenant Receives a Lease Contract (1750) Taken from the 1750 edition of Franz Philipp Florinus’ Oeconomus prudens et legalis. Oder Allgemeine....
5.	Symbolic Representation of the 18th-Century Class System (c. 1795) This wood engraving by an unknown artist depicts the class and power structure of the monarchical-aristocratic ancien régime as it had developed up to the late eighteenth century. The relatively....
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