A FEEDBACK ON OUR KICK-OFF CONFERENCE OF LAST MAY ON H-SOZ-KULT

Our colleagues Ronald Kurt Salzer, Carina Siegl and Andrea Singh Bottanová have just published a detailed report on our Kick-Off conference in May on H-Soz-Kult.

Here is an extract

The conference marks the end of the first year of an SFB1, whose eight sub-projects are re-evaluating the reign of Emperor Maximilian I using a common prosopographical approach, with the qualitative interpretation based on an extensive collection of data. In the course of the conference, the most important research strands, objectives and digital tools of the project were to be presented to an international audience and subjected to discussion and criticism at an early stage of work. Almost all contributions were presented as a tandem of two linked contributions and discussed by two respondents.

The project coordinator, Andreas Zajic, commenced by introducing the SFB, which, in view of the image of Maximilian I —ranging between two extremes: on the one hand, a “managed” ruler in the retrospective negative assessment of his grandson and successor Charles V., and on the other hand, the “solipsistic” artist king propagated as a universal genius and patron of the arts in works such as the Weißkunig or Freydal— has set out to investigate Maximilian’s politics, government, cultural and artistic production as well as the networks of (previously unexplored) individuals and groups behind Maximilian, also beyond the elusive court, and their connections. To this end, two communicating open access databases are to be created in Vienna and Graz in an integrative, interdisciplinary manner and with the involvement of non-university research institutions (Institute for Medieval Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Albertina).

You can read the full text, in German, here

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