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- Zeitschrift für historische Forschung
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Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
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2052433-X
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Article
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- Konflikt und Allianz : Muster von Zugehörigkeit im spätmittelalterlichen Wien und Österreich
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Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2025
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- German
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- Political alliances and conflicts are intricately related to each other like the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in community building. Dynamics of conflicts not just reveal interests, social relations and patterns of belonging, but also contribute to their constitution. Changes in these patterns point to social change. This study examines on historical patterns of conflict and alliance in Austria with a focus on Vienna in the long 15th century. It draws particular attention to interdependences between urban and wider political landscapes and their transformations caused by changes of rule, military conflict and economic crises. I argue that taking into account the multiplicity of historical actors and their polyvalent dimensions of belonging can help us better understand constellations of conflict and alliance. Central European princes – the Babenbergs and Habsburgs in this case – often simultaneously held positions of town lords which resulted in ambivalent relations between them and both urban and noble elites. From 1365 onwards, Habsburg family members were co-ruling, which resulted in decade-long struggles among them and converged or collided with other political alliances. The tensions culminated in the so-called “Mailberger Bund” (1451/52), a confederation against Emperor Frederick III that united more than 250 participants. Methodologically, I test Patrick Lantschner’s model of Italian and Flemish cities as nodal points in social relations and interactions in a Central European context. Their polycentric nature allows for making visible the equally polycentric character of their wider surroundings. Yet, when Habsburg rule became divided from the late 14th century onwards, even “the prince” did not represent one clear political actor, because there were mostly several competing lords within the same dynasty. This multiplicity was a novel element in “standard” patterns of conflict. A focus on the city of Vienna as key site of negotiation during these decades, but also as an actor and as a node in a polycentric network helps to reveal some characteristic patterns of conflict. This article (1) briefly sketches Vienna’s relations to the lords of the country and noble elites that affected urban differentiation and in turn had an impact on dynastic conflicts until 1400. It shows (2) that the dynamics of dynastic struggle around 1400 were characterized by territorial divisions and guardianships for underage dukes. Two case studies on (3) a major political crisis in Vienna (1408) and (4) the “Mailberger Bund” (1451/52) introduce various actors, their social profiles and networks and their involvement in shaping politics and institutional bodies that only eventually emerged as “estates”. These examples moreover demonstrate opportunities and limits of digital prosopography and social network analysis.
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