Queens, Noblewomen and Mendicants in Late Medieval Germany. Female Piety in Court, Town and Monastery (1250-1400)

中世纪晚期德国的皇后、贵妇和乞丐。

• 批准号: 270181773
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Nikolas Jaspert
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Historisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/270181773?language=en
• 关键词: Queens; Noblewomen; Mendicants; Late; Medieval

Isabell of Longchamp, Sancha of Naples and Agnes of Bohemia are only three well known medieval queens who showed a particular proximity to the mendicant orders. The friars not only influenced life in the expanding towns, as research has repeatedly underlined, but also marked the long distance networks of late medieval nobility. Due to aristocracy´s considerable impact and agency, this particular connection between court and mendicants had consequences that by far transcended the narrow field of piety. Research on the German Empire of the Middle Ages has already perceived this special relationship, but to date has only dealt with exceptional individuals. A comprehensive, comparative study of this phenomenon has not yet been written. The objective of this project is therefore to present a pioneer study that will determine the intensity, growth and impact of the piety that noble women showed bestowed upon the mendicant orders in the German Empire during the 13th and 14th centuries. Members of the three most important dynasties - Habsburg, Luxemburg and Wittelsbach - will be studied in their varying relationships to the four major mendicant orders and to related forms of the vita religiosa. Four fields of focus will give structure to the project. First, individual agency will be studied, then a focus will be laid on specifically mendicant forms of piety. Third, spaces of female aristocratic piety will be analyzed, particular attention being conveyed on the interdependencies between court, monastery and town. Finally, these noblewomen will be positioned within communicative networks that comprised both ecclesiastical and secular members of court. Such a study that takes the agents, modes and spaces of female mendicant piety in medieval Europe into account will fill a glaring lacuna. It will mark a major step in realizing that the intensive and varied forms of support provided to the mendicants by influential queens and noblewomen in fact sum up to an important pan-European, albeit generally overlooked movement.

朗尚的伊莎贝尔、那不勒斯的桑查和波希米亚的阿格尼斯是三位著名的中世纪女王，他们特别接近乞丐团体。正如研究一再强调的那样，修士们不仅影响了不断扩大的城镇的生活，还标志着中世纪晚期贵族的远程网络。由于贵族S的相当大的影响力和中介作用，宫廷和乞丐之间的这种特殊联系产生了远远超出狭隘的虔诚领域的后果。对中世纪德意志帝国的研究已经意识到了这种特殊的关系，但到目前为止，只涉及到特殊的个人。关于这一现象的全面、比较的研究还没有写出来。因此，这个项目的目标是提出一项开创性的研究，以确定13世纪和14世纪德意志帝国中贵族妇女对乞讨秩序表现出的虔诚的强度、增长和影响。哈布斯堡、卢森堡和维特尔斯巴赫这三个最重要王朝的成员将被研究他们与四个主要乞讨教派和相关形式的维塔宗教的不同关系。四个重点领域将为该项目提供结构。首先，将研究个别机构，然后将重点放在具体的乞讨形式的虔诚。第三，分析女性贵族虔诚的空间，特别关注宫廷、修道院和城镇之间的相互依存关系。最后，这些贵族女性将被安置在由教会和世俗宫廷成员组成的交流网络中。这样一项研究考虑了中世纪欧洲女性乞讨虔诚的动因、模式和空间，将填补一个明显的空白。这将标志着在认识到有影响力的女王和贵族妇女向乞丐提供密集和各种形式的支持的过程中迈出了重要的一步，这实际上是一场重要的泛欧洲运动，尽管普遍被忽视。