Diary-writing at European courts at the end of the Old Regime: Concepts of person, ritual and gender (Teilbereich I: Ritualisierte Lebensweisen)

旧政权末期欧洲宫廷的日记写作：人、仪式和性别的概念（第一区：仪式化的生活方式）

• 批准号: 5422257
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Claudia Ulbrich
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FMI)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2003-12-31 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5422257?language=en
• 关键词: Diary; writing; European; courts; end

This project aims to collect, explore, contextualise and analyse diaries written at European courts in the second half of the 18th century, both as texts, and as historical sources. At the early modern courts personal relations were determined by hierarchy and etiquette, and public life took prominence over private life. By the middle of the 18th century legitimacy of rank by birth and of the high costs of a ceremonial court was being eroded, both from the inside and the outside. There was also an increasing production of egodocuments, which has usually been interpreted as a sign of growing introspection and self-questioning, and connected with the "birth of the individual". Amongst key questions addressed in the project are to what extent the writing of a private diary at court was used to solve tensions between public and private and to create a separate persona? Was this persona, and in a wider sense the concept of person, inner-directed, or relational, that is determined by the place of the author within the court-hierarchy and family? To what extent was is shaped by the rituals of his or her environment? To what extent was it gendered? During the first two years the research will concentrate on the Dutch Stadholderate court. In the second stage the scope will be widened to the Prussian and Habsburg courts, to compare the results and test the hypotheses based on the Dutch case-study. Central to the project will be an in-depth comparison between three extensive court diaries, written in The Hague (Hardenbroek, 1759-1787), in Berlin (Lehndorff, 1750-1775) and in Vienna (Khevenhüller-Metsch, 1742-1776).

该项目旨在收集、探索、背景化和分析 18 世纪下半叶在欧洲法院写下的日记，无论是文本还是历史资料。在现代早期的宫廷中，个人关系是由等级制度和礼仪决定的，公共生活比私人生活更重要。到了 18 世纪中叶，出生等级的合法性和礼仪宫廷的高昂费用，从内部和外部都受到了侵蚀。自我文件的产生也不断增加，这通常被解释为日益内省和自我质疑的标志，并与“个人的诞生”相关。该项目解决的关键问题是，在法庭上写私人日记在多大程度上被用来解决公共和私人之间的紧张关系并创造一个单独的角色？这个人物角色，以及更广泛意义上的人的概念，是内在导向的还是关系性的，是由作者在法庭等级制度和家庭中的地位决定的？他或她的环境仪式在多大程度上影响了他或她？它在多大程度上被性别化了？头两年的研究将集中在荷兰总督法院。在第二阶段，范围将扩大到普鲁士和哈布斯堡王朝法院，以比较结果并根据荷兰案例研究检验假设。该项目的核心是对三份内容广泛的法庭日记进行深入比较，这些日记分别写于海牙（Hardenbroek，1759-1787 年）、柏林（Lehndorff，1750-1775 年）和维也纳（Khevenhüller-Metsch，1742-1776 年）。