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Tagged: Prosopography

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...

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,...

23-05.24, EVENING LECTURE | “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 | by Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin

In the context of the Kick-Off conference of the FWF 9200 Managing Maximilian project: Managing the Prince. Hidden Actors and the Prosopography of Pre-Modern Rulership (23.–25.05.2024), Professor Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (University of Lille – IRHIS – Senior Member of the IUF,...

PROSOPOGRAPHICAL NETWORKS OF MAXIMILIAN I (1459-1519): DEALING WITH COMPLEXITY IN PROSOPOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVES

Last week the group Digitising Maximilian presented the first results of the work-in-progress about the Habsburg emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) in the international conference Complex Networks, held in Menton November 27th-December 1st, 2023: the proceedings will be available soon. While...