Fürsten und Finanzen im Mittelalter“ als Veröffentlichung in der Reihe „Vorträge und Forschungen“ des Konstanzer Arbeitskreises für Mittelalterliche Geschichte

“弗斯滕和海伦……können晚安，晚安，晚安，晚安。”几乎没有哪句话能像利沃尔德（Levold of Northof）在1357/58年的王子镜中所说的那样，简洁地总结出处理“金融与金融”问题的动机和理由。事实上，一个君主的财政能力决定了他的社会政治行动范围的好坏。显而易见的矛盾是，财政在君主地位的确立中并不占绝对地位。无论如何，所有在政治、家族-王朝或宗教-文化领域的王公行为都有财政层面。这种由众多个人出版物提供的对王公统治财政中心层面的基本见解，与普遍相当贫乏的研究状况惊人地不相称。虽然最近的出版物和会议表明，金融的话题似乎越来越受欢迎，越来越多的人关注国王和王子的贷款、债务、质押政策等，但Uwe Schirmer的观察仍然是正确的，金融史确实经得起“keinem Vergleich mit dem Ausstoß an b<e:1> chern und Aufsätzen der anderen Sparten des Faches”。会议卷第一次以广泛的方式解决了这一研究需求，在这里要求出版补贴。它不仅讨论了世俗王子的财政来源和债务，而且还将视野扩展到教会王子，公主和王子的寡妇，王子的镜子和当时的文学，以及中国皇帝。使用跨学科方法和跨文化比较来考虑性别研究的金融史-除了处理王室历史的“经典”领域之外，这是以前从未做过的。包括引言和总结在内，共有13篇文章，都是由专家撰写的。会议卷，无疑将成为杰出的学术重要性的标准工作，因为它的广度，产生于“Konstanzer Arbeitskreis fr mittelalterliche Geschichte”的赖兴瑙会议。这是工作组的第一次混合会议，由于冠状病毒大流行，年轻学者的比例特别高。在著名的“Vorträge und Forschungen”系列上发表文章对这些年轻的同事来说是一个极好的机会。传统上，这些卷首先在Thorbecke-Verlag计划中作为印刷出版物出版。《移动的墙》从出版之日起正好是两年。之后，内容可以在互联网上自由访问。

“Fürsten und Herren [...] können nichts erreichen, wenn sie kein Geld haben.” Hardly any sentence sums up the motivation and justification for dealing with “Fürsten und Finanzen im Mittelalter” as succinctly as this remark by Levold of Northof in his mirror of princes of 1357/58. In fact, the financial capacity of a prince decided the weal and woe of his socio political scopes of action. In apparent contradiction, finances did not take an absolute place in the assertion of princely rank. In any case, all princely actions in the political, familial-dynastic, or religious-cultural spheres had a financial dimension. This fundamental insight into the central dimension of finances for the princely rule, fed by numerous individual publications, is strikingly disproportionate to the generally rather meagre state of research. Although recent publications and conferences show that the topic of finance seems to be gaining in popularity and that more and more attention is being paid to the loans, debts, pledge policies, etc. of kings and princes, Uwe Schirmerʼs observation still holds true that financial history does withstand “keinem Vergleich mit dem Ausstoß an Büchern und Aufsätzen der anderen Sparten des Faches”. The conference volume, for which a publication subsidy is requested here, addresses this research desideratum in a wide-ranging way for the first time. It does not only address the sources of finance and debts of secular princes but also extends the view to ecclesiastical princes, princesses, and princely widowers, to mirrors of princes and to the literature of the time in general, as well as to the Chinese emperor. Financial history in consideration of gender studies using an interdisciplinary approach and an intercultural comparison – this has never been done before besides the treatment of “classical” fields of princely history. Including the introduction and the summary, there are 13 contributions, all written by proven experts. The conference volume, which will undoubtedly become a standard work of outstanding scholarly importance because of its breadth, emerged from a Reichenau conference of the “Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte”. This was the working group’s first hybrid conference, and because of the corona pandemic, the proportion of young academics was particularly high. Publishing in the prestigious series of “Vorträge und Forschungen” is an excellent opportunity for these young colleagues. The volumes are traditionally first published as print publications in the programme of the Thorbecke-Verlag. The Moving Wall is then precisely two years from the date of publication. After that, the contents are freely accessible on the internet.