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Category: Writing Maximilian

09.04.2026 | TALKING MAXIMILIAN 9: Klara Hübner, Looking for dots. Ein Spaziergang über das breite Feld der Prosopographie – Begriffe, Konzepte, Chancen und Herausforderungen im Zeitalter von KI

Prosopographie, d. h. die Erforschung der komplexen Beziehungen innerhalb einer gesellschaftlichen Gruppe, ist dank Digital Humanities nicht mehr aus dem Werkzeugkasten des Historikers wegzudenken – jeder kennt die Visualisierung sozialer Netzwerke als filigranes Diagramm mit tanzenden Punkten und Linien. Der...

09.–10.04.2026 | International Workshop “Joining the Dots. Actors, Networks and the Social Fabric of Courts and Towns during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period”

– – – English version (German version below) – – – The SFB-Project „Managing Maximilian (1493–1519) – Persona, Politics and Personnel through the Lens of Digital Prosopography“ pursues a new interpretative approach to Maximilian’s reign and pre-modern governance by systematically...

WORKSHOP PAPER | Tomasz Walczak: The Role and Function of Notarial Instruments in the Governance of the Diocese of Kraków (1392–1488)

From 4 to 5 November 2025 the Writing Maximilian subproject organised the international workshop “Managing the Ruler in the Office” exploring new perspectives on the practice of chanceries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times across Central, East Central, and...

WORKSHOP PAPER | Aliaksandra Valodzina: Between Dictamen and Affair. Latin and Medieval German Chancellery Departments of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas Writing on the Hussites’ Heresy

From 4 to 5 November 2025 the Writing Maximilian subproject organised the international workshop “Managing the Ruler in the Office” exploring new perspectives on the practice of chanceries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times across Central, East Central, and...

WORKSHOP PAPER | Philipp Laumer: The seventh time is the charm? Reflections on multiple copies of charters in Sigismund of Luxembourg’s chancery

From 4 to 5 November 2025 the Writing Maximilian subproject organised the international workshop “Managing the Ruler in the Office” exploring new perspectives on the practice of chanceries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times across Central, East Central, and...

WORKSHOP PAPER | Nadja Krajicek-Seidl: Nur so am Rande? Spurensuche auf Archivgut aus der Zeit von Maximilian I. (1486–1519)

Vom 4. bis 5. November 2025 organisierte das Writing Maximilian Teilprojekt den internationalen Workshop „Managing the Ruler in the Office“. Ziel war es, sowohl innovative Forschungsansätze als auch klassische methodische Herangehensweisen zusammenzubringen und im Austausch neue Perspektiven auf die Praxis...

WORKSHOP PAPER | Ronald Kurt Salzer: Castles for Credit. Context, Script, and Codicology of the “Gedenkbücher” Nos. 2 and 2b

This paper discusses a hitherto neglected but truly fascinating source regarding Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519), the so-called “Gedenkbücher” Nos. 2[1] and 2b[2]. They are housed in the archival collection “Alte Hofkammer” of the “Finanz- und Hofkammerarchiv” in the Austrian State...

09.–10.04.2026 | CfP | Workshop “Joining the Dots. Actors, networks and the social fabric of courts and towns during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period”

One of the SFB’s Managing Maximilian key research outcomes will be the open-access prosopographical database APIS. This will include not only individuals who were involved with the court or the wider circle of the Emperor, but also their family members, offices,...