The Council in the Memory of the City. The Negotiation of Knowledge about the Past in urban historical writing in the Upper Rhine region in the 15th and 16th century

这个项目为上莱茵河地区的中世纪晚期和早期现代历史写作提出了一种新的方法。在它中，来自历史书写的文本不再被视为当局寻求将其权力合法化的过去的构建，而是作为城市记忆的一部分，在城市记忆中，不同社会群体之间以历史的方式谈判过去。本研究以《康斯坦斯会议纪事》，特别是受其启发的各种形式的历史写作为出发点。《康斯坦斯会议纪事》以其独特的形式记录了1414年至1418年在该市举行的国际会议。不久之后，由Ulrich Richental撰写，其中包含了一系列的说明，所有不同随从的名单，以及他们的纹章的描绘。这部编年史在现代研究中受到了很大的关注，然而，这些研究大多集中在丢失的里士满的原始文本-目击者的叙述-上，尽管现存的最早的手稿只可以追溯到15世纪下半叶。虽然大多数学者努力弥合历史传统与理事会事件之间的鸿沟，但这个项目关注的是手稿中文本流传下来的明显结构。它分析了编年史在15世纪末转型和出版的原因，这表明即使在理事会事件过去一段时间后，编年史仍具有吸引力。这种正在进行的历史写作题材的话题性在宗教改革期间接受文本的第二阶段也很明显，当时同代人开始将Jan Hus的教义与马丁·路德的教义相提并论，Jan Hus在康斯坦斯会议期间作为异教徒被烧死在火刑柱上，马丁·路德的教义。《康斯坦斯会议纪事》早已脱离了作者，为莱茵河上游城市的各个城市读者提供了广泛的历史知识。本项目将通过手稿和文本分析的方式来研究这些知识的功能化和再功能化。在与《康斯坦斯议会纪事》一起考察其他重要的历史著作时，这些著作从一个城市传到另一个城市，并进行了类似的改造和改编，可以研究莱茵河上游地区城市历史写作的交叉联系。

This project proposes a new approach towards late medieval and early modern historical writing in the Upper Rhine region. In it, texts from historical writing are no longer conceived as constructions of the past by which authorities looked to legitimize their power, but instead as part of urban memory in which the past is negotiated historiographically between different social groups. The study takes the Chronicle of the Council of Constance, and especially the various forms of historical writing inspired by it, as its starting point. The Chronicle of the Council of Constance is an in its form unique account of the international assembly gathered in the city from 1414 to 1418. It was written shortly afterwards by Ulrich Richental and contains a series of illuminations, lists of all the various attendants and the depictions of their coats-of-arms. The chronicle received a lot of attention in modern research, which however concentrated mostly on the lost original text - the eyewitness account - of Richental, although the earliest surviving manuscripts date only from the second half of the 15th century. Whereas most scholars endeavor to bridge the gap of historical tradition towards the events of the council, this project focuses on the apparent configurations in which the text was handed down in the manuscripts. It analyses the reasons for the transformation and publication of the chronicle in the late 15th century, which demonstrate its attractiveness even after some time had passed since the events of the council. This ongoing topicality of the subject matter for historical writing is also apparent in the second period of reception of the text during the Reformation, when contemporaries started to draw parallels between the teachings of Jan Hus, burnt at the stake as a heretic during the council of Constance, and those of Martin Luther. The Chronicle of the Council of Constance had long since detached itself from its author and offered its various urban recipients in the cities of the upper Rhine a wide range of historical knowledge. The functionalization and refunctionalization of this knowledge will be investigated in this project by way of manuscript and text analysis. In examining alongside the Chronicle of the Council of Constance also other important historical works, which were passed from city to city, and were transformed and adapted similarly, the crosslinking of urban historical writing in the upper Rhine region can be studied.