Die zwei Körper des Kanzlers? Die „reale“ und die „virtuelle“ Karriere Kaspar Schlicks unter König und Kaiser Sigismund – Epilegomena zu einem alten Forschungsthema I

• Authors: Petr Elbel , Andreas Zajic

Title variants

EN

The Chancellor’s Two Bodies? The “Real” and the “Virtual” Career of Kaspar Schlick under King and Emperor Sigismund – Epilogue to an Old Research Topic

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The present article is part one of a three-piece study on the remarkable career and the social advancement of Kaspar Schlick (c. 1400–1449) who subsequently served as an imperial chancellor to the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Sigismund, Albrecht II and Frederick III. The authors aim at a comprehensive juxtaposition of Schlick’s “real” curriculum vitae as suggested by the evidence of genuine contemporary sources with the outlines of a merely “virtual” process of climbing in official functions and social status designed and expressed by Schlick himself in a chain of diplomatic forgeries.

Keywords

EN

Emperor Sigismund; Kaspar Schlick; royal chancery; medieval diplomatics; medieval; forgeries; social climbing

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 47-143

Contributors

author

Petr Elbel

• Historický ústav, Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Solniční 12, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic; Institut für Mittelalterforschung Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wohllebengasse 12-14, 1040 Wien, Austria

author

Andreas Zajic

• Institut für Mittelalterforschung Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wohllebengasse 12-14, 1040 Wien, Austria