Conference Managing the Prince
Managing the Prince
Hidden Actors and the Prosopography of Pre-modern Rulership
Kickoff Conference of the SFB Managing Maximilian (FWF F9200)
23-25 May 2024
in hybrid mode:
on site at the Weltmuseum Wien Forum – KHM, Vienna
and online via Zoom
Premodern rule deeply relied upon personal relationships; rulership depended on interactions of formal rulers and those who implemented or influenced their intentions. The shaping of politics and dynastic ambitions, the exercise of rule, the consolidation of administration, the prince’s sense of his or her self and the staging of power cannot be disentangled. All those in charge of these tasks were key actors in the making of rulership.
By using a prosopographical approach, the large scale SFB project “Managing Maximilian (1493-1519). Persona, Politics, and Personnel through the Lens of Digital Prosopography“ (ManMAX) intends to show that power, politics, and their staging, can only be interpreted through a profound investigation of personal relations and interactions. Inspired by the cultural history of politics and New Institutionalism, it aims at a new assessment of Maximilian’s reign by backing a qualitative interpretation with a large-scale dataset. Guided by an interdisciplinary perspective, ManMAX intends to raise our knowledge of this emperor’s rule to a new scale and increase our broader understanding of rule as a process of negotiation between a multitude of agents.
The project focusses on the thousands of actors in Maximilian's rule, administration, artistic and cultural production and to relate them to one another in the course of a major source digesting campaign and by means of a (factoid-based) data collection. Marking the end of the first year of collaborative work, this conference presents the main research strands to an international audience. Moreover, itexposes the objectives and digital tools of the project to collegial discussion and criticism in a still early working phase in order to gather suggestions and advice. All papers will be presented as a tandem of two interlinked contributions and subsequently discussed by two respondents.
Programm
9:00 Opening ceremony: Heinz Faßmann (President, ÖAW) / Christof Gattinger (President, FWF) / Sebastian Schütze (Rector, University Vienna) / Franz Pichorner (Secretary-General, KHM)
9:20 Andreas Zajic (ÖAW Vienna),Introduction and presentation of ManMAX
Section I: Prosopography and the People at Court
9:45-10:15 Markus Debertol/Philipp Laumer (University of Innsbruck): More than Chancellors and Counsellors. A Database for the Court of Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:15 Marion Romberg/Christian Standhartinger (ÖAW Vienna): The Viennese Court – A Prosopographical Portal (VieCPro). Results and Future Potential for Court Research
11:15-11:45 Response: Torsten Hiltmann (Humboldt University of Berlin) / Jeroen Duindam (University of Leiden)
Discussion
12:30-14:30 Lunch
Section II:Digital Prosopography and Social Network Analysis
14:30-15:00 Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (ÖAW Vienna)/Ekaterini Mitsiou (University of Vienna): Competing Emperors in Exile. Digital Prosopography, Charters and Networks of the Rulers of Nicaea and Trebizond in 13th Century Anatolia
15:00-15:30 Digitising Maximilian: Richard Hadden/Suzana Sagadin/Marcella Tambuscio/Georg Vogeler (University of Graz): Towards the Maximilianosphere – Historical Data Modelling, Factoid Extraction, Temporal Network Analysis
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:40 Response: Márton Karsai (CEU Vienna) / Matthew Hammond (King‘s College London)
Discussion
18:00 Evening lecture: Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (University of Lille): “The tree and the forest” – Some Reflections on the “Little Big Men” in the Construction of the State at the End of the Middle Ages
Section III: Gender Constructions and Gendered Practice
9:30-10:00 Gendering Maximilian: Christina Lutter/Christof Muigg (University of Vienna): Why Gender is not just about Women – Gendered Imageries and Practices at Maximilian's Court and Beyond
10:00-10:30 Armouring Maximilian: Rahul Kulka (KHM, Vienna): Armour Makes the Man – Boys’ Armours and the Construction of Masculinities in the Environment of Emperor Maximilian I
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Response:Christina Antenhofer (University of Salzburg) / Markus Pilz (Kunstsammlung Veste Coburg)
Discussion
12:00- 14:00 Lunch
Section IV:Personal Networks in the Literary and Cultural Sector
14:00-14:30 Contextualising Maximilian: Elisabeth Klecker/Lukas Ebert (University of Vienna): Networks of Reception – Contemporary Readers of Encomiastic Poetry
14:30-15:00 Singing Maximilian: Grantley McDonald (University of Vienna): A Knight at the Keyboard – Interpreting Paul Hofhaimer’s Grant of Heraldic Arms (1515)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Response: Albert Schirrmeister (DHI Paris) /David Fiala (University of Tours)
Discussion
18:00 Round Table: Managing the Prince – Studying Prosopography beyond the Court
Matthew Hammond (King‘s College London) / Manfred Hollegger (ÖAW Vienna – RI Maximilian) / Julia Burkhardt (LMU, Munich) / Gerhard Lubich (University of Bochum) / Klara Hübner (University of Brno)
Section V: Personal Networks in Literature, Art and Administration
9:30-10:00 Creating Maximilian: Stephan Müller/Dennis Wegener (University of Vienna): Political Songs around Emperor Maximilian I.
10:00-10:30 Depicting Maximilian: Erwin Pokorny (Albertina, Vienna): An Early Design Drawing for Gilg Sesselschreiber's “Tomb Statues” of Emperor Maximilian I.
10:30-11:00 Response:Henrike Manuwald (University of Göttingen) / Andrea Pearson (American University, Washington, D.C.)
Discussion
11:30-12:00: Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Writing Maximilian: Sonja Lessacher/Andrea Singh Bottanová (ÖAW Vienna): Approaches to Maximilian and his Chancery in the Digital Age
12:30-13:00 Response: Manfred Hollegger (ÖAW Vienna) / Paul M. Dover (Kennesaw State University)
Discussion
14:00 End
Registration:
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