Military Justice, Regulations and Discipline in Early Modern Transylvanian Armies (XVI-XVII Century)
Military Justice, Regulations and Discipline in Early Modern Transylvanian Armies (XVI-XVII Century)

Summary/Abstract: In the early modern period the military organization of European states suffered significant changes, some of them regarding the internal regulations of armies. The state tried to impose a more efficient control on armies by issuing regulations on matters of: discipline, maintaining security in military camps, organizing the marches, provisioning and last but not least reducing the negative impact on civil population. This tendency was also manifesting in the principality of Transylvania, a state with a rather short period of existence coinciding with this period of transition towards modernity (1541-1691). Regulations such as those issued by Steven Báthory or those from the second half of the XVII century, together with occasional articles issued by the estate assemblies tried to impose measures of internal organization meant to increase the control of the prince on the military structures of the country.

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