Social attitudes and legal constraints: army life in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1890-1914
Sked, Alan
(2012)
Social attitudes and legal constraints: army life in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1890-1914
Journal on European History of Law, 3 (2).
pp. 11-33.
ISSN 2042-6402
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.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Habsburg Monarchy,Habsburg army,officer corps,honour,honour code,honour courts,duelling,military justice,punishments,suicide,sex,venereal disease,homosexuality,anti-Semitism |
| Departments | International History |
| Date Deposited | 21 Feb 2013 10:59 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/48789 |