{"title":"Historicizing Invalids in the Early Modern Habsburg Monarchy: A Dis/ability History Approach","authors":"Julia Heinemann","doi":"10.1353/oas.2023.a914869","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European rulers established several new measures to support soldiers with disabilities. The term <i>invalid</i> was introduced to designate the men considered worthy of support. The article investigates the case of the Habsburg Monarchy through the lens of dis/ability history: it historicizes the making of invalids as a process connected to shifting concepts of dis/ability, military labor, gender, and the state. The analysis of early modern imperial decrees shows a valorization of disabled soldiers: distinctions between fitness and unfitness to serve, between invalids and other people with disabilities, and between invalids and \"mutilants\" were central to this process. \"Invalidity\" was thus intertwined with gendered notions of military honor, cameralist concepts of labor and utility, and a specific form of state formation and patriotism in the Habsburg Monarchy.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":40350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian Studies","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Austrian Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2023.a914869","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European rulers established several new measures to support soldiers with disabilities. The term invalid was introduced to designate the men considered worthy of support. The article investigates the case of the Habsburg Monarchy through the lens of dis/ability history: it historicizes the making of invalids as a process connected to shifting concepts of dis/ability, military labor, gender, and the state. The analysis of early modern imperial decrees shows a valorization of disabled soldiers: distinctions between fitness and unfitness to serve, between invalids and other people with disabilities, and between invalids and "mutilants" were central to this process. "Invalidity" was thus intertwined with gendered notions of military honor, cameralist concepts of labor and utility, and a specific form of state formation and patriotism in the Habsburg Monarchy.
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The Journal of Austrian Studies is an interdisciplinary quarterly that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the history and culture of Austria, Austro-Hungary, and the Habsburg territory. It is the flagship publication of the Austrian Studies Association and contains contributions in German and English from the world''s premiere scholars in the field of Austrian studies. The journal highlights scholarly work that draws on innovative methodologies and new ways of viewing Austrian history and culture. Although the journal was renamed in 2012 to reflect the increasing scope and diversity of its scholarship, it has a long lineage dating back over a half century as Modern Austrian Literature and, prior to that, The Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.
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