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

“Fürsten und Herren [.]如果她没有钱，那就不可能。”几乎没有任何一句话能像诺思霍夫的莱沃德在他1357/58年的王子镜子中的这句话那样简洁地概括出处理“Fürsten und Finanzen im Mittelalter”的动机和理由。实际上，一个君主的财力决定了他社会政治活动范围的兴衰。显然矛盾的是，财政状况并没有在王子地位的主张中占据绝对的地位。无论如何，君主在政治、家族-王朝或宗教-文化领域的所有行动都有一个财政层面。这种对君主统治财政核心维度的基本见解，由无数的个人出版物提供，与普遍相当贫乏的研究状况惊人地不成比例。尽管最近的出版物和会议表明，金融的话题似乎越来越受欢迎，越来越多的注意力被放在国王和王子的贷款、债务、抵押政策等方面，乌韦·席尔默的观察仍然是正确的，金融史确实经得起“keinem Vergleich mit dem Ausstoelan Büchern und Aufsätzen der anderen Sparten des Faches”的考验。会议卷，其中的出版补贴要求在这里，解决了这个研究迫切需要在广泛的方式第一次。它不仅涉及世俗君主的财政和债务来源，而且还将视角扩展到教会君主、公主和君主鳏夫，扩展到君主的镜子和一般的文学，以及中国皇帝。考虑到性别研究的金融史，采用跨学科方法和跨文化比较-除了处理王室历史的“经典”领域之外，这是以前从未做过的。包括引言和摘要在内，共有13篇稿件，均由经过验证的专家撰写。会议卷，这无疑将成为一个标准的工作，杰出的学术重要性，因为它的广度，出现了从赖歇瑙会议的“康斯坦茨Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche历史”。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。在享有盛誉的“Vorträge und Forschungen”系列中发表文章对这些年轻同事来说是一个极好的机会。这些卷传统上首先作为印刷出版物在Thorbecke-Verlag的计划中出版。《移动的墙》从出版之日起正好两年。在此之后，内容可以在互联网上免费访问。

“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.