Social Attitudes and Legal Constraints: Army Life in the Habsburg Monarchy 1890 –1914
Social Attitudes and Legal Constraints: Army Life in the Habsburg Monarchy 1890 –1914
Author(s): Alan SkedSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: STS Science Centre Ltd
Keywords: Habsburg Monarchy; Habsburg army; officer corps; honour; honour code; honour courts; duelling; military justice; punishments; suicide; sex; venereal disease; homosexuality; anti-Semitism.
Summary/Abstract: The Habsburg Army between 1890 and 1914 was in many ways under attack within the Monarchy. Part of its defence mechanism was to see itself as a 'state within the state' relying on a code of honour and a separate military justice system. However, social forces meant in fact that it came more and more to resemble the wider society of the Monarchy.
Journal: Journal on European History of Law
- Issue Year: 3/2012
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 11-32
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
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