{"year":"2020","title":"Solidarity, coercion and rebates. Dissension during fiscal reform negotiations in the Holy Roman Empire, 1719–1732: mere excuses or fundamental conflicts? ","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"citation":{"short":"Y. Huybrechts, in: n.d.","ama":"Huybrechts Y. Solidarity, coercion and rebates. Dissension during fiscal reform negotiations in the Holy Roman Empire, 1719–1732: mere excuses or fundamental conflicts? .","mla":"Huybrechts, Yves. <i>Solidarity, Coercion and Rebates. Dissension during Fiscal Reform Negotiations in the Holy Roman Empire, 1719–1732: Mere Excuses or Fundamental Conflicts? </i>.","apa":"Huybrechts, Y. (n.d.). <i>Solidarity, coercion and rebates. Dissension during fiscal reform negotiations in the Holy Roman Empire, 1719–1732: mere excuses or fundamental conflicts? </i>. Deutscher Historikertag, Online.","bibtex":"@inproceedings{Huybrechts, title={Solidarity, coercion and rebates. Dissension during fiscal reform negotiations in the Holy Roman Empire, 1719–1732: mere excuses or fundamental conflicts? }, author={Huybrechts, Yves} }","ieee":"Y. Huybrechts, “Solidarity, coercion and rebates. Dissension during fiscal reform negotiations in the Holy Roman Empire, 1719–1732: mere excuses or fundamental conflicts? ,” presented at the Deutscher Historikertag, Online.","chicago":"Huybrechts, Yves. “Solidarity, Coercion and Rebates. Dissension during Fiscal Reform Negotiations in the Holy Roman Empire, 1719–1732: Mere Excuses or Fundamental Conflicts? ,” n.d."},"date_updated":"2025-07-19T12:43:39Z","abstract":[{"text":"During the eighteenth century, the Reichskammergericht or Imperial Chamber of Justice seemed to teeter almost continuously on the edge of demise. Its financial straits are generally attributed to a reluctance of the Estates to support the court by paying the fixed yearly tax, the Zieler. The Estates, it is assumed, simply weren’t interested anymore as they would rather invest in the establishment of their own territorial courts of justice. In my presentation, I would like to contest these assumptions by looking more closely at debates that took place at the Imperial Diet in the years 1719–1732. At the time, the Estates were discussing possible measures to improve or at least stabilise the yield of the Zieler to ensure the Chamber’s survival. This provoked a heated debate on the causes of the dwindling yield and ways to make Estates pay more reliably. Suggestions ranged from abolishing tax privileges, taxing new territories, simply writing off old dues to harsher enforcement. Because these debates became so profound that they threatened to incapacitate the Zieler-system altogether, analysing them will reveal critical assumptions and attitudes of Estates concerning fiscal duties. I will contend that the – apparent – inability of the Empire to maintain its fiscal capacity shouldn’t be attributed solely to a lack in interest, but mainly to severely conflicting views on the tax system’s deficiencies and ways to redress them. ","lang":"eng"}],"user_id":"78579","publication_status":"unpublished","conference":{"location":"Online","name":"Deutscher Historikertag"},"department":[{"_id":"6"}],"date_created":"2025-07-19T12:40:05Z","author":[{"first_name":"Yves","full_name":"Huybrechts, Yves","orcid":"0009-0009-2166-9794","last_name":"Huybrechts","id":"78579"}],"type":"conference","_id":"60670","status":"public"}