Pfaffenbrief
The Pfaffenbrief of October 7, 1370 was a contract between Zurich , Lucerne , Zug , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden . He stipulated that secular and clerical persons in the area of the contracting parties owed obedience to the local authorities. The clergy residing in the federal places were forbidden to go to foreign courts, except in marriage and spiritual matters. A feud ban was also issued.
In Swiss historiography , the Pfaffenbrief of 1370, the Sempacherbrief of 1393 and the Stans Decree of 1481 are generally regarded as approaches to creating a state as a whole, an interpretation that has been relativized by recent studies.
literature
- Andreas Heusler : Swiss constitutional history. Frobenius, Basel 1920.
- Norbert Domeisen: Swiss constitutional history, philosophy of history and ideology. A study of the interpretation of the constitutional history of the Swiss Confederation from the end of the 15th to the end of the 18th century through national historiography (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences 103). Lang, Bern et al. 1978, ISBN 3-261-03089-5 , p. 43 ff.