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Abstract
The essay is dedicated to the idealized emotionlessness of early modern Spanish office holders. It focuses on the so called corregidores, which represented the king and administered justice in major Spanish cities. Their instructions often idealized the total lack of pasiones or at least their complete invisibility. Such a discarding of all affects echoed the ideals of impartial judges, just kings and uninterested clerics and had specific functions, especially in cities with their high density of mutual observation. To live accordingly, that is, with one's own emotions permanently held in check, required personal aptitude, appropriate age and a process of education and study which should convert certain habits into a ›second nature‹ and thus distinguish the corregidor significantly from the society over which he was to judge. Constantly checked by society however, this second nature would corrupt, if not protected by a rigid and permanent »vigilance over oneself«.

Die Techniken der Kalenderzählung formen unseren Umgang mit der Zeit ebenso, wie Längenmaße, Kommunikations- und Fortbewegungsmittel unseren Umgang mit dem Raum. Der Reiz, diese Techniken zu untersuchen, besteht darin, dass sie die Veränderlichkeit der menschlichen Wahrnehmung deutlich vor Augen führen. Zeit und Raum sind damit keine apriorischen Gegebenheiten unseres Daseins, sondern historisch geworden und kulturell geprägt. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht im Rahmen dieser allgemeinen Prämisse der Frage nach, seit wann und in welchen Bereichen man sich im Rahmen von "Jahrhunderten" orientiert. Entgegen der weit verbreiteten Annahme wird gezeigt, dass Jahrhundertwenden keineswegs "zu allen Zeiten" die Menschen in ihren Bann gezogen haben. Die Ergebnisse der historischen Recherche zeigen, dass sich erst das Jahr 1800 als "Ereignis" einer Jahrhundertwende belegen läßt, das breite Bevölkerungsschichten interessierte. (ICA)

Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation

"Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation. Building on the latest research and offering new methods of inquiry, this book is a compelling resource for academics interested in political history and the history of corruption"--