Selbstzeugnisse von Gelehrten und soziale Praktiken des Wortes – personale Identität? Personkonzepte, Zugehörigkeit und Vergangenheitskonstruktionen

Gendering Late Medieval Habsburg Dynastic Politics: Maximilian I and His Social Networks

“…35 This understanding is also found in letters and treatises written to and about erudite women or dedicated to them, which display humanist ideals of marriage as companionship, albeit rarely on an equal footing. 36 Therefore, moving beyond the exceptional and looking more systematically into humanists' networks of kin, which included mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters alongside male peer circles, serves to shed light on the role of male and female members as brokers in the emperor's intellectual environment. Social ties were forged against the background of transregional socio-economic and humanist networks around 1500 and the changing ideals of marriage and companionship among male scholars in courtly and urban environments.…”