The Billung Dynasty: Networking in Realm and Region and the Dynastic Continuity in the Twelfth Century

比隆王朝：王国和地区的网络化以及十二世纪的王朝连续性

• 批准号: 407995766
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Florian Hartmann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Wissensdiskurse des Mittelalters
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/407995766?language=en
• 关键词: Billung; Dynasty; Networking; Realm; Region

At the beginning of the twelfth century the Billung Dynasty was one of the longest-serving dynasties of dukes in the Empire. Five dukes of Saxony, that followed in direct succession, originated from the house of Billung: Hermann († 973), Bernhard I. († 1011), Bernhard II. († around 1059), Ordulf († 1072), and Magnus († 1106). No other duchy of the Empire at that period could feature such a continuity in succession. In spite of this evidence for a stable government in Saxony under the Billung Dynasty and in spite of the abundant source material, no major research has been carried out about this dynasty in the last years. While scholars have intensively worked on other noble families of the Empire, showing which extreme potential, as regards methodology, those studies of individual noble houses on imperial territory have, no monograph has been published about the Billung recently.The last major studies on the Billung Dynasty have been carried out in the 1950's. Since that time, the methodological and textual approaches have undergone profound transitions which make it necessary to question traditional views on the Billung and to investigate and assess them in a new light. After a preliminary examination three fields of investigation have appeared to be in particular suitable for re-assessment: 1. Recent studies on noble families have revealed a clan-like construction, in which personal networks constituted the organization and structure of noble families in eleventh- and twelfth-century Empire. Those new insights make it essential to scrutinize the networks of the Billung family on personal, territorial, and institutional level.2. The new understanding that the cognatic kinship remained important for the construction of dynasties still in the twelfth century prompts us to re-think the allegedly "extinction" of the Billung family in 1106 and suggests to investigate the history of the family and their self-perception beyond the year 1106. 3. Studies on the Europeanization (Bartlett) of the continent have shown that there was an increasing expansion at the periphery of Christian Europe. New evidence points to the fact that the Billung have been stronger involved in this expansionistic policy since the end of the eleventh century than it has been assumed so far and that the expansionistic policy even extended in the continuation of the dynasty under Lothar of Supplinburg.Considering those developments and drawing on recent, excellent works on other imperial noble families of this period, the project aims to shed new light on the house of Billung in the eleventh and (in their continuities) twelfth centuries and to publish the results of this project in a monographic study.

在十二世纪初，必隆王朝是帝国中在位时间最长的公爵王朝之一。接踵而至的五位萨克森公爵起源于比隆王朝：赫尔曼(†973年)、伯恩哈德一世(†1011年)、伯恩哈德二世(†约1059年)、奥杜夫(†1072年)和马格纳斯(†1106年)。在那个时期，帝国的其他公爵领地都没有这样的继承性。尽管有证据表明比隆王朝统治下的萨克森有一个稳定的政府，尽管有丰富的资料来源，但在过去的几年里，没有进行关于这个王朝的重大研究。虽然学者们对比隆王朝的其他贵族家族进行了密集的研究，表明在方法论方面，那些对帝王领地上的个别贵族宫廷的研究具有极大的潜力，但最近还没有关于比隆王朝的专著发表。上一次对比隆王朝的重大研究是在20世纪50年代的S。从那时起，方法论和考证方法发生了深刻的转变，这使得对比隆王朝的传统观点提出质疑，并从新的角度对其进行调查和评估。经过初步审查，有三个领域的调查似乎特别适合重新评估：1.最近对贵族家庭的研究揭示了一种氏族结构，其中个人网络构成了11世纪和12世纪帝国贵族家庭的组织和结构。这些新的洞察力使得在个人、领土和机构层面上仔细审查比隆家族的网络变得至关重要。新的认识，即认知亲属关系对建立王朝仍然重要，仍然在12世纪，促使我们重新思考据称在1106年比隆家族的“灭绝”，并建议调查1106年以后的家族历史和他们的自我认知。3.关于欧洲大陆欧洲化(巴特利特)的研究表明，基督教欧洲的边缘地区正在不断扩大。新的证据表明，自11世纪末以来，比隆家族比到目前为止一直更强烈地参与到这一扩张主义政策中，而且扩张主义政策甚至延伸到了补丁堡洛萨王朝的延续。考虑到这些发展，并借鉴最近关于这一时期其他皇室贵族家族的优秀著作，该项目旨在对11世纪和12世纪(其延续)的比隆家族进行新的了解，并在专题研究中公布该项目的结果。