Travart is a bilateral research WTZ-project financed by the Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) and the Campus France that links 16 historians, art historians, and linguists from France and Austria to explore the Habsburg Monarchy jointly from the perspective of a transcultural history of entanglement. The guiding theme is the transfer of material artifacts from one cultural context to another, which will be analyzed in terms of materiality, taste, and consumption. The focus is on processes of decontextualization and recontextualization, reception mechanisms, social distinction and identity, networks, and the formation and overcoming of spaces. Travart promises new insights into the interconnectedness of the Habsburg Monarchy with European and global networks in the early modern period. Due to the different foci of the project partners, the project leads to synergies and links French and Austrian research on the history of the Habsburg Monarchy in an unprecedented way.
Coordination
Ludolf PELIZAEUS (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens)
Arno STROHMEYER (University of Salzburg / Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Participants
Camille DESENCLOS (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens): Foreign diplomats as importers or exporters of goods in the Habsburg Empire (c. 1560–c. 1640)
Marion DUCHESNE (Université de Caen): Contribution to the history of taste through the representations of the infants and archdukes of the House of Habsburg in Spain
Doris GRUBER (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences): Consuming Ottoman fauna in the Habsburg Monarchy (c. 1500–1800)
Veronika HYDEN-HANSCHO (University of Klagenfurt): Chocolate, Feathers, Silk, and Cotton: Consumption and Aesthetics in the Habsburg Monarchy of the 18th Century
Katrin KELLER (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences): Transfer aux feminin? Gendering trans-fer practices between Vienna and Madrid
Christopher F. LAFERL (University of Salzburg): Intra-Habsburg exchange of material goods in the first half of the 16th century
Eric LEROY DU CARDONNOY (Université de Caen): Social groups and consumption at the turn of the XVIII century in Vienna: a "Spanish fever" in Austria?
Marie Eglantine LESCASSE (Université de Caen): Les écrits sur la langue et le style et dans l'empire des Habsbourg d'Autriche et d'Espagne
Alexandra MERLE (Université de Caen): Luxury objects and transfers of taste in the economic and politi-cal reflection in Habsburg Spain
Thomas NICKLAS (Université de Champagne Ardennes, Reims): A consumer society in the making? The Commercialisation of the Periphery of the Empire and the Press: The Example of Carinthia and Carniola, 1780–1800 Neu: Gifts as Travelling Artefacts – The Economy of Giving and the Innsbruck Court (1564-1665)
Lena OETZEL (University of Salzburg): Consumption and cultural transfer of Habsburg diplomats at the Westphalian Peace Congress
Herta Luise OTT, (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens): A new sobriety? – Consumption of food and beverages in urban public spaces of the Empire during the eighteenth century
Ludolf PELIZAEUS (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens): The Perception of "Moors", "Turks" and "Indians" in the mirror of material culture in the Habsburg Empire in the 18th Century and the Influence on the Development of Taste
Christian STANDHARTINGER (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences): The Letters and Diaries of Johanna Theresia von Harrach
Arno STROHMEYER (University of Salzburg / Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences), Travelling artefacts: Habsburg Diplomats in Vienna, Madrid, and Constantino-ple (16th century)
Werner TELESKO (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences): Habsburg material culture and art History in the early modern period