History

The Federal Constitutional Court had neither a model nor a predecessor. Based on the court files from its early years, it can now be shown how the Court's members contributed to the development of the institution and, in effect, invented the Court as we know it today.

Alyssa Lehr Evans examines how Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt, a central player in the development of the Reformation in Wittenberg, became and continued to self-consciously develop as a reformer. She shows how Karlstadt's reading and reception of Augustine played a pivotal role in his development and approaches understanding Karlstadt by considering fundamental issues of authority and interpretation.

The Heidelberg Assembly of 1848 paved the way for the Paulskirche Constitution. This volume focuses on a milestone in the German history of freedom and democracy, examining the significance of the assembly for the development of parliamentarianism in Germany and for the city of Heidelberg in the pre-March period.

This volume contains three sources and studies drawn from the late medieval records of the Benedictine convent of Lüne near Lüneburg - the edition of the statute book with the rites of admission to the monastic community, the diary of the prioress Mechthild Wilde about her own election, and a study on the networks of the Lüne provosts, especially with regard to their acquisition of benefices.