Vol. 95 (2024): Vorträge und Forschungen: Fürsten und Finanzen im Mittelalter

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»Princes and lords […] can achieve nothing, if they have no money.« Hardly any sentence sums up the motivation and justification for dealing with »Princes and Finances in the Middle Ages« as succinctly as this remark by Levold of Northof in his mirror for princes of 1357/58. This conference volume addresses the research desideratum of a history of princely finances in the Middle Ages. 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 for princes and to the literature of the time in general, as well as to the Chinese emperor. Princely financial history taking gender research into account, in an interdisciplinary approach as well as in an intercultural comparison – this has never been done before in one volume besides the treatment of »classical« fields of princely history.