The historian Martin Almbjär is writing about political communication in Early Modern society. More precisely he is working on supplications in the Age of Liberty (1718–1772). A short period of parliamentarianism in Sweden. Handing in supplications were a common (written) form in Early Modern Europe of making requests to the authorities – the Swedish Diet in this case. But the problem was that the parliament, which gathered only a few days every year, had hard times in making decisions.
Links: Martin Almbjär, Umeå University, Age of Liberty (Wikipedia), Winkelschreiber (Wikipedia), SPSS (Wikipedia), Picture: Adolph von Menzel, Die Bittschrift
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