IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 317: Ruling, Administering, and Maintaining a Composite Empire: Emperor and King Sigismund of Luxemburg, 1368-1437, III - Courts and Courtiers

Monday 7 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung & Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien / Institute of Historical & Social Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Zagreb
Organisers:	Alexandra Kaar, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Suzana Miljan, Institute of Historical & Social Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Zagreb
Moderator/Chair:	Alexandra Kaar, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
Paper 317-a	Resident and Mobile: Administration and Governance in Sigismund's Lands, 1410-1419 (Language: English) Márta Kondor, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 317-b	In His Majesty's Service: King Sigismund's Royal Knights from the County of Zagreb, 1387-1437 (Language: English) Suzana Miljan, Institute of Historical & Social Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Zagreb Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 317-c	'Versatile profecto ingenium, naturae bonitas singularis': Financial Advisers of Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg (Language: English) Krisztina Arany, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest / National Archives of Hungary, Budapest Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 317-d	The Bohemian and Moravian Nobility at the Court of Emperor Sigismund (Language: English) Petr Elbel, Regesta Imperii Branch Office / Department of History, Masaryk University, Brno / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The session focuses on the role of courts and courtiers as an instrument of royal administration and as mechanisms of integration of the military and intellectual elite under Sigismund's rule. The first paper deals with the problem of the direct and delegated royal and imperial administration. The second is dedicated to the role of royal knights as Sigismundian military elite on the example of those coming from medieval Slavonia, while the third deals with financial advisers of the Emperor. The fourth paper focuses on the role of courtly and state offices for attracting Bohemian and Moravian nobles into Sigismund's service.