IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 136: A 'How to' for Medieval Learning Spaces, I: Managing
Monday 7 July 2025, 11:15-12:45
| Organiser: | Bernhard Heil, Salzburger Burgen und Schlösser Betriebsführung |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ingonda Hannesschläger, Abteilung Kunstgeschichte, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 136-a | Gaining Land: How to Sustain Spiritual Duties with Property (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General, Monasticism |
| Paper 136-b | How to Manage Land: Manorial Administration and the Establishment of Offices in an Ecclesiastical Principality (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Rural, Local History |
| Paper 136-c | How to Become a Prince-Archbishop?: Different Paths to Power (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Learning spaces may be multifaceted. This session strand places the city and province of Salzburg at the centre of individual case studies in order to provide insights into these. The first session will discuss how elites in the ecclesiastical principality of Salzburg learned to establish functioning administrative and power structures in order to be able to assert itself economically, especially in the face of neighbouring larger powers. The first paper is dealing with a chartulary in the liber confraternitatum of Salzburg, which documents donations made by private individuals in the High Middle Ages, which served the monastery of St. Peter to economically consolidate and develop increasing influence. The second paper discusses the introduction of the organisation of offices by the archbishop of Salzburg because of a change of the manorial administration, which led to the creation of urbaria in the 14th and 15th century. The third paper focuses on the different electorial strategies. How did future archbishops of the late middle ages shape their career paths in order to pave their way to successful elections. |