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Medieval Worlds
This article examines images of (primarily religious, but-at least implicitly-also ethnic) othern... more This article examines images of (primarily religious, but-at least implicitly-also ethnic) otherness as featured by late medieval inscriptions from Austria and its neighbours. As an introduction to the topic, the author first presents a 19th-century epitaph from South Tyrol (Italy) that is dedicated to the memory of a youth originating from (modern) Sudan who, following his baptism, was brought to Europe by his mentor, a Tyrolean missionary. The exemplary religious lifestyle of the Catholic young man honoured on stone seems to have been directed to the local Christians as an exhortation to develop more religious zeal. Second, the study assesses a memorial erected in 1304 by the Benedictines of Altenburg Abbey, commemorating (pagan) Cumans that were killed on the grounds of desertion (as military allies of the Austrian duke in his campaigns against the king of Bohemia) and assaults against the (Christian) civilian population in battle, of whom 104 were finally buried by the abbot and the monks in a mass grave close to the monastery. A younger inscription (dating from the second half of the 14th century) serves as an epigraphic admonition to Catholic believers entering (what is now) St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna to refrain from pagan idolatry, an appeal that was staged by presenting (today lost) statuettes of either antique or Cumanic origin. Finally, the text investigates the lavish tomb slabs of two Gypsy leaders (from the early 16th century) in Pforzheim and Tulln, who were buried in the respective churches. Highlighting the sharp contrast between the predominantly negative image of alien pagans from the earlier monuments to the self-conception of the Gypsy chiefs as assimilated Christians in their ultimate media of remembrance, the author points out that the process of epigraphic othering served to foster common self-conceptions of the Christian majority society.
"Per tot discrimina rerum" – Maximilian I. (1459-1519)
Le principal tiltre, le plus beau et riche pays de tous les autres d'icelle nostre maison d'Autri... more Le principal tiltre, le plus beau et riche pays de tous les autres d'icelle nostre maison d'Autriche Maximilian I. und das (Erz-)Herzogtum Österreich (unter der Enns)
Die vorliegende Ausgabe versammelt Forschungsbeiträge aus den Bereichen Kunstgeschichte, Geschich... more Die vorliegende Ausgabe versammelt Forschungsbeiträge aus den Bereichen Kunstgeschichte, Geschichtswissenschaft, Germanistik, Archäologie, Byzantinistik und Bauforschung, die aus unterschiedlichen Fragestellungen, Projekten und Forschungsinteressen heraus die digitalen Geisteswissenschaften als Methode und Denkansatz für die Erforschung der materiellen Kultur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit fruchtbar machen. Elisabeth Gruber, Gabriele Schichta: Digitale Geisteswissenschaften und die Rückbindung an das Objekt. Ein Interview mit Georg Vogeler (1–9); Ingrid Matschinegg, Isabella Nicka: REALonline Enhanced. Die neuen Funktionalitäten und Features der Forschungsbilddatenbank des IMAREAL (10–32); Stefan Eichert, Bernhard Koschicek, Mihailo St. Popovic: Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP). Fallstudien zur digitalen Aufnahme, Verwaltung, Analyse und Präsentation archäologischer und historischer Daten (33–57); Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer: Nahrhafte mittelalterliche Dichtung: digital...
Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 2018
Illuminierte Urkunden erfordern als Objekte mit Text-Bild-Kombinationen einen interdisziplinären ... more Illuminierte Urkunden erfordern als Objekte mit Text-Bild-Kombinationen einen interdisziplinären Zugang, um sie angemessen zu erforschen. Expertinnen und Experten im Feld der Kunstgeschichte, der Historischen Hilfswissenschaften – allen voran der Diplomatik – und der Digital Humanities arbeiten im am Institut der Mittelalterforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und am Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung der Universität Graz angesiedelten Projekt "Illuminierte Urkunden" gemeinsam an der Präsentation der Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Online-Urkundenportal Monasterium (www.monasterium.net). Anhand ausgewählter Beispiele zum Thema Marken auf Handwerksprodukten untersucht der vorliegende Aufsatz die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Arbeit mit illuminierten Urkunden im virtuellen Raum. Besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf Urkunden mit der Darstellung von Handwerkermarken auf Messern. Since illuminated charters make up a specific sort of historical source combining ...
Miszellen. Archäologische Bausteine aus St. Pölten, 2022
Symbolische Interaktion in der Residenzstadt des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
While the study of medieval charters has an ample tradition in the big field of auxiliary science... more While the study of medieval charters has an ample tradition in the big field of auxiliary sciences of history, the illumination contained in some of these sources has often been neglected. Also art-historians normally didn’t take notice of the often prestigious combination of legal sources and artistic decoration. The present paper offers an interdisciplinary view on this widely ignored field of research and tries to distinguish between three large groups of illuminated charters that differ in their functions. Firstly, decorated charters – which are usually quite impressive due to their colorfulness and size – may contribute to the shaping of identity of a group of persons. Secondly, they can also serve as show pieces with the foremost aim of attracting the attention of beholders. Finally, the decoration can also help to increase the appeal and the value of the charter. The interdisciplinary project Illuminated Charters as “Gesamtkunstwerk”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (...
The article analyses the grant of arms of King Sigismund for the Moravian market-town Mohelno fro... more The article analyses the grant of arms of King Sigismund for the Moravian market-town Mohelno from 1417, which was issued at the request of the local suzerain, the familiaris of Sigismund, the knight Peter Gewser of Mohelno. The first part of the article (by Andreas Zajic) analysis the grant of arms charter, which is preserved only as a late copy, in the context of the oldest grants of arms for cities and market-towns. The second part of the article (Petr Elbel) contains a social and prosopographic analyse focused on the personality of Peter Gewser and his career at the court of King Sigismund.
The present article is part one of a three-piece study on the remarkable career and the social ad... more The present article is part one of a three-piece study on the remarkable career and the social advancement of Kaspar Schlick (c. 1400-1449) who subsequently served as an imperial chancellor to the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Sigismund, Albrecht II and Frederick III. The authors aim at a comprehensive juxtaposition of Schlick’s “real” curriculum vitae as suggested by the evidence of genuine contemporary sources with the outlines of a merely “virtual” process of climbing in official functions and social status designed and expressed by Schlick himself in a chain of diplomatic forgeries. Whereas parts two and three will be dedicated to this “virtual” career and an analysis of the complex stock of falsifications, the following article traces the “real” career of the chancellor starting from the diffuse origins of the family and the early stages of Schlick’s service in the imperial chancery, proceeding to his promotion to the leading function of the chancellor and his vital influenc...
Page 1. „Zu ewiger gedächtnis aufgericht' 5C3R-R84-JA6P Page 2. Mitteilungen des Instituts f... more Page 1. „Zu ewiger gedächtnis aufgericht' 5C3R-R84-JA6P Page 2. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung Ergänzungsband 45 R. Oldenbourg Verlag Wien München Page 3. Andreas Zajic „Zu ewiger ...
Historiker zwischen den Zeiten
... Andreas Zajic ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Arbeitsgruppe Inschriften des Instituts ... more ... Andreas Zajic ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Arbeitsgruppe Inschriften des Instituts für Mittelalterforschung der ÖAW, ... Peter in Salzburg that held vast shares of the region's vineyards from the early Middle Ages through the 19th century. ...
Medieval Worlds
The European fifteenth century not only saw the advent of humanism as a new cultural phenomenon a... more The European fifteenth century not only saw the advent of humanism as a new cultural phenomenon as a whole that fostered a groundbreaking shift in social discourses and polities, it also gave birth to a new paradigm of erudition that included a common code or intellectual habitus of learned elites. An ever-increasing interest in the distant ancient past, especially Greek and Roman Antiquity, led to a widespread enthusiasm for textual and material sources and relics of centuries past, a concern with the study of history that usually goes under the label of antiquarianism. Among the scholarly disciplines that were established within this framework in the early modern period, epigraphy, the science of ancient inscriptions, held pride of place. With epigraphic sylloges reproduced and distributed in manuscript form and later on in print, scholars and humanistic amateurs laid the cornerstone of what later turned into the academic routine of editing Roman and Greek inscriptions, with several epigraphical series as heirs and successors of primeval humanistic ambitions. In the nineteenth century, two prominent series were established at the Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) and the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (CIG) (later Inscriptiones Graecae [IG]). 1 On 12th March 1890, in Vienna the philosophical-historical class of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften set up the »Commission für archäologische Erforschung Klein-Asiens« at the request of Otto Benndorf. From the outset, the Commission's work focused on inscriptions and topographical research. At the same time, the series of the Tituli Asiae Minoris (TAM) was founded. Since then, TAM as well as the corresponding supple mentary volumes (ETAM) belong to the traditional corpora and series which are located at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). 2 1 For a detailed description of the development, scientific goals, prerequisites, organisational structures, but also scientific-political strategies of the epigraphic corpora enterprises of the Berlin Academy, see Rebenich, Berlin und die antike Epigraphik. 2 The history of the Commission and the development of TAM is described in detail by Dobesch, Hundert Jahre Kleinasiatische Kommission. The development of TAM in contrast to the Berlin Corpora is shown by Halloff, Berliner Corpus.
Medieval Worlds
This article examines images of (primarily religious, but-at least implicitly-also ethnic) othern... more This article examines images of (primarily religious, but-at least implicitly-also ethnic) otherness as featured by late medieval inscriptions from Austria and its neighbours. As an introduction to the topic, the author first presents a 19th-century epitaph from South Tyrol (Italy) that is dedicated to the memory of a youth originating from (modern) Sudan who, following his baptism, was brought to Europe by his mentor, a Tyrolean missionary. The exemplary religious lifestyle of the Catholic young man honoured on stone seems to have been directed to the local Christians as an exhortation to develop more religious zeal. Second, the study assesses a memorial erected in 1304 by the Benedictines of Altenburg Abbey, commemorating (pagan) Cumans that were killed on the grounds of desertion (as military allies of the Austrian duke in his campaigns against the king of Bohemia) and assaults against the (Christian) civilian population in battle, of whom 104 were finally buried by the abbot and the monks in a mass grave close to the monastery. A younger inscription (dating from the second half of the 14th century) serves as an epigraphic admonition to Catholic believers entering (what is now) St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna to refrain from pagan idolatry, an appeal that was staged by presenting (today lost) statuettes of either antique or Cumanic origin. Finally, the text investigates the lavish tomb slabs of two Gypsy leaders (from the early 16th century) in Pforzheim and Tulln, who were buried in the respective churches. Highlighting the sharp contrast between the predominantly negative image of alien pagans from the earlier monuments to the self-conception of the Gypsy chiefs as assimilated Christians in their ultimate media of remembrance, the author points out that the process of epigraphic othering served to foster common self-conceptions of the Christian majority society.
"Per tot discrimina rerum" – Maximilian I. (1459-1519)
Le principal tiltre, le plus beau et riche pays de tous les autres d'icelle nostre maison d'Autri... more Le principal tiltre, le plus beau et riche pays de tous les autres d'icelle nostre maison d'Autriche Maximilian I. und das (Erz-)Herzogtum Österreich (unter der Enns)
Die vorliegende Ausgabe versammelt Forschungsbeiträge aus den Bereichen Kunstgeschichte, Geschich... more Die vorliegende Ausgabe versammelt Forschungsbeiträge aus den Bereichen Kunstgeschichte, Geschichtswissenschaft, Germanistik, Archäologie, Byzantinistik und Bauforschung, die aus unterschiedlichen Fragestellungen, Projekten und Forschungsinteressen heraus die digitalen Geisteswissenschaften als Methode und Denkansatz für die Erforschung der materiellen Kultur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit fruchtbar machen. Elisabeth Gruber, Gabriele Schichta: Digitale Geisteswissenschaften und die Rückbindung an das Objekt. Ein Interview mit Georg Vogeler (1–9); Ingrid Matschinegg, Isabella Nicka: REALonline Enhanced. Die neuen Funktionalitäten und Features der Forschungsbilddatenbank des IMAREAL (10–32); Stefan Eichert, Bernhard Koschicek, Mihailo St. Popovic: Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP). Fallstudien zur digitalen Aufnahme, Verwaltung, Analyse und Präsentation archäologischer und historischer Daten (33–57); Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer: Nahrhafte mittelalterliche Dichtung: digital...
Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 2018
Illuminierte Urkunden erfordern als Objekte mit Text-Bild-Kombinationen einen interdisziplinären ... more Illuminierte Urkunden erfordern als Objekte mit Text-Bild-Kombinationen einen interdisziplinären Zugang, um sie angemessen zu erforschen. Expertinnen und Experten im Feld der Kunstgeschichte, der Historischen Hilfswissenschaften – allen voran der Diplomatik – und der Digital Humanities arbeiten im am Institut der Mittelalterforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und am Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung der Universität Graz angesiedelten Projekt "Illuminierte Urkunden" gemeinsam an der Präsentation der Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Online-Urkundenportal Monasterium (www.monasterium.net). Anhand ausgewählter Beispiele zum Thema Marken auf Handwerksprodukten untersucht der vorliegende Aufsatz die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Arbeit mit illuminierten Urkunden im virtuellen Raum. Besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf Urkunden mit der Darstellung von Handwerkermarken auf Messern. Since illuminated charters make up a specific sort of historical source combining ...
Miszellen. Archäologische Bausteine aus St. Pölten, 2022
Symbolische Interaktion in der Residenzstadt des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
While the study of medieval charters has an ample tradition in the big field of auxiliary science... more While the study of medieval charters has an ample tradition in the big field of auxiliary sciences of history, the illumination contained in some of these sources has often been neglected. Also art-historians normally didn’t take notice of the often prestigious combination of legal sources and artistic decoration. The present paper offers an interdisciplinary view on this widely ignored field of research and tries to distinguish between three large groups of illuminated charters that differ in their functions. Firstly, decorated charters – which are usually quite impressive due to their colorfulness and size – may contribute to the shaping of identity of a group of persons. Secondly, they can also serve as show pieces with the foremost aim of attracting the attention of beholders. Finally, the decoration can also help to increase the appeal and the value of the charter. The interdisciplinary project Illuminated Charters as “Gesamtkunstwerk”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (...
The article analyses the grant of arms of King Sigismund for the Moravian market-town Mohelno fro... more The article analyses the grant of arms of King Sigismund for the Moravian market-town Mohelno from 1417, which was issued at the request of the local suzerain, the familiaris of Sigismund, the knight Peter Gewser of Mohelno. The first part of the article (by Andreas Zajic) analysis the grant of arms charter, which is preserved only as a late copy, in the context of the oldest grants of arms for cities and market-towns. The second part of the article (Petr Elbel) contains a social and prosopographic analyse focused on the personality of Peter Gewser and his career at the court of King Sigismund.
The present article is part one of a three-piece study on the remarkable career and the social ad... more The present article is part one of a three-piece study on the remarkable career and the social advancement of Kaspar Schlick (c. 1400-1449) who subsequently served as an imperial chancellor to the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Sigismund, Albrecht II and Frederick III. The authors aim at a comprehensive juxtaposition of Schlick’s “real” curriculum vitae as suggested by the evidence of genuine contemporary sources with the outlines of a merely “virtual” process of climbing in official functions and social status designed and expressed by Schlick himself in a chain of diplomatic forgeries. Whereas parts two and three will be dedicated to this “virtual” career and an analysis of the complex stock of falsifications, the following article traces the “real” career of the chancellor starting from the diffuse origins of the family and the early stages of Schlick’s service in the imperial chancery, proceeding to his promotion to the leading function of the chancellor and his vital influenc...
Page 1. „Zu ewiger gedächtnis aufgericht' 5C3R-R84-JA6P Page 2. Mitteilungen des Instituts f... more Page 1. „Zu ewiger gedächtnis aufgericht' 5C3R-R84-JA6P Page 2. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung Ergänzungsband 45 R. Oldenbourg Verlag Wien München Page 3. Andreas Zajic „Zu ewiger ...
Historiker zwischen den Zeiten
... Andreas Zajic ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Arbeitsgruppe Inschriften des Instituts ... more ... Andreas Zajic ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Arbeitsgruppe Inschriften des Instituts für Mittelalterforschung der ÖAW, ... Peter in Salzburg that held vast shares of the region's vineyards from the early Middle Ages through the 19th century. ...
Medieval Worlds
The European fifteenth century not only saw the advent of humanism as a new cultural phenomenon a... more The European fifteenth century not only saw the advent of humanism as a new cultural phenomenon as a whole that fostered a groundbreaking shift in social discourses and polities, it also gave birth to a new paradigm of erudition that included a common code or intellectual habitus of learned elites. An ever-increasing interest in the distant ancient past, especially Greek and Roman Antiquity, led to a widespread enthusiasm for textual and material sources and relics of centuries past, a concern with the study of history that usually goes under the label of antiquarianism. Among the scholarly disciplines that were established within this framework in the early modern period, epigraphy, the science of ancient inscriptions, held pride of place. With epigraphic sylloges reproduced and distributed in manuscript form and later on in print, scholars and humanistic amateurs laid the cornerstone of what later turned into the academic routine of editing Roman and Greek inscriptions, with several epigraphical series as heirs and successors of primeval humanistic ambitions. In the nineteenth century, two prominent series were established at the Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) and the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (CIG) (later Inscriptiones Graecae [IG]). 1 On 12th March 1890, in Vienna the philosophical-historical class of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften set up the »Commission für archäologische Erforschung Klein-Asiens« at the request of Otto Benndorf. From the outset, the Commission's work focused on inscriptions and topographical research. At the same time, the series of the Tituli Asiae Minoris (TAM) was founded. Since then, TAM as well as the corresponding supple mentary volumes (ETAM) belong to the traditional corpora and series which are located at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). 2 1 For a detailed description of the development, scientific goals, prerequisites, organisational structures, but also scientific-political strategies of the epigraphic corpora enterprises of the Berlin Academy, see Rebenich, Berlin und die antike Epigraphik. 2 The history of the Commission and the development of TAM is described in detail by Dobesch, Hundert Jahre Kleinasiatische Kommission. The development of TAM in contrast to the Berlin Corpora is shown by Halloff, Berliner Corpus.