Die zwei Körper des Kanzlers? Die „reale“ und die „virtuelle“ Karriere Kaspar Schlicks unter König und Kaiser Sigismund – Epilegomena zu einem alten Forschungsthema. II.
| Title in English | 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. II. |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica |
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| Field | History |
| Keywords | Emperor Sigismund; Kaspar Schlick; royal chancery; medieval diplomatics; medieval forgeries; social climbing |
| Description | The 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. Whereas part one, published in MHB 15/2, 2012, was dedicated to the actual career of the chancellor, the present article focuses on a painstaking diplomatic and paleographic analysis of the complex stock of falsifications kept in the Schlick family archive in the State Archives of Zámrsk. |
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