Jüdische Klagen gegen Reichsadelige: Prozesse am Reichshofrat in den Herrschaftsjahren Rudolfs II. und Franz Stephans

During the early modern period, Jews were not just objects of authoritarian abuse and victims of repression by the general society. This is illustrated by the strategies of action and argumentation in legal proceedings initiated by Jews at the Imperial Chamber Court against members of the nobility, the elite of the Holy Roman Empire, which are examined for the first time in this volume.