Landgrave Louis I. of Hesse (1413/16-1458). Politics and historiographical perception

黑塞的路易一世在该地区的历史学家中享有一定的声誉，因为他被认为是该地区的第二位创始人和一位非常成功的王子。即使在最近的出版物中，他的绰号“和平”也被认为是合理的。然而，在外界看来，不仅是在帝国的政治体系中，他通常是被忽视的。对这些持久的思想和观点的评估表明，它们依赖于1500年左右写的历史著作。这片土地的主流形象是由编年史家努恩和格斯滕贝格成功地形成的，即使是现代研究人员也没有从中解放出来。这本书涉及两个基本任务：1。追溯路易一世的政治，特别是他在他的领土之外的关系，而不遵循传统的叙述。这只能通过档案研究和追踪整个欧洲的来源来实现。在这幅图中，文化（比赛、狩猎、传令官）和宗教方面（如朝圣、虔诚、死后的纪念）也被包括在内。2. 分析了传统形象的起源，并追溯到路易一世的一生，他显然引入了这些特征，以形成自己支持其地区霸权的积极形象。这项研究导致了兰德格雷夫·路易斯作为一个多中心网络中的政治家的现代观点，并结合了对黑塞史学的新评价。

Louis I of Hesse enjoys a certain fame among historians of that territory, as he is regarded as its second founder and as a highly successful prince. His epithet 'the peaceful' is seen as justified even in recent publications. However, in the view from the outside, not only from in the political system of the Empire, he is usually neglected. An assessment of these persistent ideas and perspectives reveals their dependence on historical works being written in the years around 1500. The prevailing image of this landgrave was formed by the chroniclers Nuhn and Gerstenberg with such a success that even modern researchers did not emancipate themselves from this. This book deals with two fundamental tasks: 1. To retrace the politics of Louis I, especially his relations on the outside of his territory, without following the traditional narrative. This could only be achieved by archival research and tracing sources all over Europe. ln this picture cultural (tournaments, hunting, heralds) and religious aspects (e.g. pilgrimage, piety, posthumous remembrance) were included, too. 2. The origins of the traditional image are analysed and retraced to the lifetime of Louis, who apparently introduced some of these features to form a positive image of himself backing up his regional hegemony. This research leads to a modern view on Landgrave Louis acting as a politician in a polycentric web combined with a fresh evaluation of the historiography of Hesse.