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9. Minisymposium des Zentrums für Umweltgeschichte

Von "UFO" zu "EHDA": Präsentation eines neuen Forschungstools für die Österreichische Umweltgeschichte im Internet

Moderation: Univ. Doz. Dr. Fridolin Krausmann, Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte

EHDA steht für "Environmental History Database Austria". Diese ab November 2005 über das Internet kostenlos und öffentlich zugängliche Datenbank erschließt ca. 2000 für Österreich relevante umwelthistorische Literaturzitate und Forschungsaktivitäten. Die Recherche ist online nach Zeitstellung, Ort und Thema möglich, eingebunden in die bereits bestehenden Internetseiten des "Zentrums für Umweltgeschichte" (ZUG). Grafische Benutzerinterfaces - Karten und Zeitleisten - unterstützen die Suche. So werden Schwerpunkte und "weiße Flecken" auf der Landkarte umwelthistorischer Forschungen, damit Leistungen und Potentiale der Österreichischen Umweltgeschichte auch international sichtbar.

EHDA ist für ForscherInnen, Lehrende und Studierende der Umweltgeschichte eine wichtige Arbeitsgrundlage. EHDA macht die Leistungen der Österreichischen Umweltgeschichte seit 1945 sichtbar und nutzbar.

Das Projekt wurde vom Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank finanziert und von einem Team aus UmwelthistorikerInnen, ExpertInnen aus dem Bibliothekswesen und PraktikerInnen für Datenbank- und Webprogrammierung umgesetzt. ExpertInnen aus verschiedenen Gebieten steuerten ihr Fachwissen bei. Das Forschungstool EHDA wird im Rahmen des ZUG Minisymposiums erstmals der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert. Das Forschungsteam wird den Arbeitsprozess und die konzeptuellen und praktischen Entscheidungen vorstellen. BesucherInnen sind dazu eingeladen, als Erste die Datenbank vor Ort zu testen.


Ort: IFF, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien, Seminarraum, 6. Stock
Zeit: Mittwoch, 16. November 2005, 18:00-ca. 20:00

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Prof. Richard Hoffmann, PhD (Toronto): Aquatic Commons in a World of Change: Medieval European Experiences and present-day Management

Abstract:
Human cultures and natural systems directly intersect in fisheries. The enounter so fully illustrates all the paradigmatic hazards of environmental exploitation, that pollution, depletion, systemic collapse, and human dominion are all clearly seen in the present-day catastrophic collapse of oceanic ecosystems, the so-called global fisheries crisis. Life scientists, social scientists, politicians, and fishers debate a spectrum of institutional response, from open access through a range of regulatory measures to exclusive private ownership of the resource. This presentation applies present-day thinking about fisheries destruction and management to the evident experience of medieval Europeans with their own aquatic resources. Its findings undermine proposed solutions and complicate convenient models with a dash of that chaos present in large-scale interaction among natural systems with or without humans.

Exemplary cases from across medieval Latin Christendom show fisheries suffering from all the now-paradigmatic risks. Some of them - overfishing, toxic effluents - alert contemporaries attributed to conscious human (mis)behaviour, while others were in retrospect the then unremarked and unintended consequence of other human activity, notably agricultural clearance and manipulation of watercourses. Now detectable as well is historic damage from natural phenomena such as environmental catastrophes and long-term climatic change which occurred without direct human participation or systematic awareness. Humans were not the only source of environmental variability.

Impacts to and remedies for damage to medieval fisheries were conceived and shaped by socio-economic relations within and between medieval societies. European use of aquatic organisms derived directly from a shared symbolic culture of taboo and purity, of nutritional theory, and of status display. Measures for pollution control and conservation arose from the interplay of local producing and consuming interests. Depletion and systemic collapse provoked a whole catalogue of what would now be called sustainability efforts. Ubiquitous regulatory responses indicate general consensus as to the problem and appropriate remedies (surprisingly similar to those of today). While interested parties actively advanced both community access and exclusive private control, it is now difficult to identify either regime with historically sustained or with destroyed fisheries. Market-oriented substitution responses did, however, align with diametrically opposite rights paradigms: unrestricted open access characterized the late medieval extension of demand to distant marine ecosystems on Europe's frontiers, while private property rights and political power typified the expansion of aquaculture enterprises where technology supplied fresh fish to inland elites.

In a past millennium or tomorrow, a world of interconnections and change promises no sure or continuing remedies for effects of exploitation. Overfishing and climatic change had by the fourteenth century exterminated certain local breeding stocks of herring. Medieval carp culture transformed natural into artificial systems with externalized costs as surely as did agricultural clearances then or the culture of salmon in Norway or British Columbia and prawns in Thailand or coastal India today.

Place: IFF, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, seminar room 6
Time: Monday, October 17, 2005, 6-8 pm

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VI. Nordic Environmental History Conference

"Thinking through the Environment"

“Historians, if they are intellectually responsible, can no longer conceive of nature as merely the setting in which history takes place”, Ted Steinberg writes in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2/2004, proclaiming that Environmental History has come of age. Environmental History is a vital and rapidly expanding field of study. One of the challenges of this multidisciplinary field is to create methodological tools for the study of the complex relations between humans and nature in the past.

This conference aims to encourage and stimulate the discussion on methods and theories used by environmental historians. We welcome all scholars working within the field of history or other disciplines involved in the study of the relationship between society and the environment. The conference is being jointly organized by the Department of Archaeology and the Schools of History and Contemporary History at the University of Turku and the Department of History at Åbo Akademi University.

Since 1997 the Schools of History and Contemporary History at the University of Turku have arranged international conferences focusing on methodological issues within historical research. Themes such as History and Memory, History and Time, History and Space and History and Change have brought together a large number of historians and other scholars in the broader field of the humanities.

All registered participants will be entitled to attend keynote lectures, working sessions, and will be able to participate in the official social programme and use the special facilities provided at the conference venue. The social programme will include receptions and field trips to historical sites in the Turku area.

Website: http://www.tte2005.utu.fi

Place: Turku/Abo, Finland
Time: September 15-17, 2005

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"Shaping the Future - Science as Intervention"

The Second Ittingen Summer School

The main goal of the Second Ittingen Summer School is to explore the tension between the inherent performativity and implied promises of science.
The Second Ittingen Summer School welcomes applications from doctoral and post-doctoral students (who completed their PhD no earlier than 2000), from all academic disciplines in the natural, social and human sciences.
The Summer School is a one-week intensive workshop, which will take place in a beautiful old monastery in Switzerland from August 13, 2005 to August 21, 2005. It requires active participation, including preparatory reading, small group discussions, and the presentation of short papers.
The Collegium Helveticum of the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) and the University of Zurich, the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas of Tel Aviv University, and the Center for Junior Research Fellows of the University of Konstanz, in cooperation with the Lion Foundation, invite applications to the Second Ittingen Summer School, which is devoted to the topic "Shaping the Future - Science as Intervention."

The participants will stay in the hotel of the Kartause Ittingen and receive free accommodation and full board. Travel costs of European and Israeli participants will be covered in full; participants from other parts of the world will receive a substantial contribution to their travel costs. All material necessary for the preparation of the Summer School, as well as the cultural programme during the School, is free.

Program

The history of science is, and has always been, closely related to the idea that the future of humankind can be - and has to be - actively shaped. Till the seventies science was considered the most important, if not the only social agency that can bring about an improvement of humanity. At the same time this almost unlimited confidence in science was accompanied by anxieties caused by a lack of confidence in the ability of science to control the consequences of its achievements. Thus the topic of "Shaping the future: Science as Intervention" has at least two different but interconnected dimensions, which will be addressed in the summer school:
The first is cognitive, and has been dealt with in the literature as the performative dimension of science. All scientific theories and practices imply a representation of the piece of the world they intend to explain. We will explore the extent to which this representation is "performative" in the sense that it has already shaped the world in a way that allows for an explanation to be offered in terms of the formulation of the problem.
Secondly, an conception of science as intervention means that an ethical and political dimension is inherent to it: this is the dimension of "promises". Scientific theories contain an implicit image of the future, usually a "better future" as they promise more health, happiness, security or comfort for humans. We will inquire into the manifold ways in which these promises impact on political decision making as well as on social, economic and ethical discourses.

Speakers and Discussion Topics
The opening lecture will be held by Martin Kusch, University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, who will provide a general introduction to the theme of the Summer School.

Imaging the Unknown: Science (in) Fiction
To shape the future one needs to relate to the unknown by imagining different possible (and impossible) scenarios of the futures. This is widely done in literature as well as in science itself, as will be discussed in presentations by Gesine Krüger and Phillip Sarasin, University of Zürich, Departement of History and Johannes Fehr, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, who will look at the interrelation of fictional and scientific imaginations of the future.

Between the Invisible and Visible Hands: "Interventions" in the History of Economics"
In economics participants will investigate the theoretical positions of scholars concerning interferences in the privately motivated 'economic' process. The focus will be on the emergence of the concept of the concept of the "invisible" hand in 'monetary policy' from Smith to Keynes, as introduced in a lecture by Arie Arnon Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Economy.

The Future of the Brain
In neuroscience one of the main foci of research is the interface of brains and computers. Following lectures by Cornelius Borck, McGill University, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Language of Medicine, and Gabriel Curio, Campus Benjamin Franklin der Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, there will be discussions on the social, political and ethical promises (and maybe anxieties) implicated in this flourishing branch of research.

Schedule

Two weeks before the Summer School all participants will receive a reader with texts chosen by the lecturers, which they are required to read in preparation of the lectures and the discussions.
After the introductory lecture on August 13, 2005, each of the first three days of the Summer School is devoted to one of the issues listed above. Each issue will be introduced by two speakers and then discussed by all participants in small groups on the basis of the relevant texts from the reader. Summaries of the small group discussions will be presented and discussed further in a plenary session in the second half of each day.
On Thursday and Friday the participants will work in small groups to prepare and present research proposals on the basis of the preliminary discussions.
The Summer School will conclude on Saturday morning, August 21, 2005, with a public event devoted to the topic of the Summer School.

Applications and Contact

Application forms can be downloaded from the website of the Summer School, where further information is provided (web address provided below) Applications have to reach the organizers by May 10, 2005. Applicants will be notified in the beginning of June.

Ort: Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland
Zeit: August 13, 2005 - August 21, 2005

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Mag. Jakob Calice: "Schätze im Abfall": Rhetorisch-argumentative Strategien zur Legitimierung der Verwertung von Abfall in der DDR

Abstract des Vortrags:
Seit den 1970er Jahren blickte Westdeutschland mit Anerkennung (und Neid) auf den ostdeutschen Umgang mit Abfall: Von Beginn an wurde in der DDR, die heute als Land der Umweltverschmutzung gilt, die Abfallverwertung groß geschrieben und eine umfassende Sammel- und Verwertungsstruktur aufgebaut, die in mehrfacher Hinsicht ihresgleichen suchte.

Der Vortrag erörtert nach einem kurzen Einblick in die materiellen Dimensionen der DDR-Verwertungswirtschaft die Strategien, mit denen diese legitimiert wurde. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf der Betrachtung der Konzeption des Abfallverwertungssektors als Teil des Wirtschaftssystems. Parallel zur Veränderung der Konzeption im Laufe der 40jährigen DDR-Geschichte wandelten sich auch die zentralen Muster der Argumentation, deren wichtigste ebenfalls vorgestellt werden. Beide Untersuchungsteile stellen die sprachlich/begriffliche Repräsentation von Abfällen/Wertstoffen im Speziellen und die konzeptuell-argumentative Repräsentation der Natur im Allgemeinen in den Vordergrund.

Der Vortrag basiert auf den Ergebnissen der Diplomarbeit "'Sekundärrohstoffe - eine Quelle, die nie versiegt' Konzeption und Argumentation des Abfallverwertungssystems in der DDR aus umwelthistorischer Perspektive.", die an der Universität Wien 2005 verfasst wurde.

Ort: IFF, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Wien, Seminarraum 4c, 4. Stock
Zeit: Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005, 18:00-ca. 19:45

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Health and the City: The City as healthy and/or as unhealthy place? (Middle Ages to the present)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Organizers: PHOENIX TN. European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy, Vienna Municipal and Provincial Archives (Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv), University of Vienna (Universität Wien)
Coorganizers: Austrian Society for the History of Cities (Österreichischer Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung), City of Vienna - dept for science and research (Stadt Wien - Magistratsabteilung 7 - Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung)

Responsible for Phoenix TN: Prof. Dr. M. Dinges, Stuttgart/Mannheim
Responsible for Vienna Municipal and Provincial Archives: Dr. S. C. Pils, Wien
Scientific committee: Prof. Dr. Martin Dinges, Dr. S.C. Pils, Prof. Dr. L. Arbreu, N.N.
Conference language: English

Deadline for abstracts: February 13th 2005
Email for abstracts: Prof. Dr. Martin Dinges, martin.dinges@igm-bosch.de
Definitive invitation of speakers: March 15th 2005
Deadline for submission of papers: May 15th 2005
Web-Publication of all papers: May 20th 2005

RATIONALE

The aim of this conference is to reflect upon the specific role of cities in matters of health as compared to the countryside: Cities are an interesting research topic for two reasons: They create new health problems, but they also provide new solutions for these problems.

To start with the problems: A huge concentration of population lead to problems of hygiene; epidemics spread easier and faster in cities and even more in large cities. Cities tend to embody all kind of dangers to individual and public health: infected water or air, huge piles of garbage, poor sewage, bad housing conditions, dangerous traffic are some of the items already discussed by authors and politicians of earlier centuries. Accentuating older debates, the 18th centuries insisted very much on the specific dangers cities may cause for the moral health of their habitants. Links between ethics and health were considered to be very close: To give an example, idleness was supposed to lead to excessive alcohol consumption which might be the cause of all sorts of violence and physical ailments. During the nineteenth century new industrial forms of pollution add to this bad image of the city. Cities until the second half of the 19th century could never keep their population number without immigration. More people died inside the city than were born inside the walls. Historical demographers coined it the "urban penalty". In the 20th century the metropolises of wealthier nations could solve these problems, but outside the "welfare belt" these problems are still very acute.

From this point of view it is not astonishing that since the Middle Ages the city has been the principal provider of health care provisions. Cities as seats of secular and religious power attracted healers and profited early from pious foundations. People migrated from the country side to the city partially for getting services not available outside urban areas. In periods of historical change, cities are the "laboratories" for new forms of health care and health provision. This can be observed from the late Middle Ages onwards, especially for the core periods of change, such as the fourteenth century (plague), the fifteenth/sixteenth (reform of poor relief and hospitals) and the nineteenth centuries ("sanitary revolution", larger health insurance schemes). The results of social experimentation in a time of change are often essential for state legislation in the field of hygiene, assistance and public health later on.

Nevertheless there were always tendencies to move out of the city for health reasons: already in the Middle Ages country houses were built by wealthier families. One of the reasons for this, more openly discussed since the 16th century, was the concept of "better air" in the countryside. The Hippocratic theory about the dangerous role of infected air was the background for these decisions. During the 19th century sanatoriums for patients suffering from tuberculosis were built in the countryside for the same reasons: the importance to get fresh air. Around 1900 school children were sent to the country side during summer to compensate bad health conditions during the rest of the year inside the city. Another point is the use of certain spaces inside the city which is also linked to issues of health: The wealthier quarters of London or Paris, for example, are situated to the west of these cities - and let the air pollution with the dominating winds coming from the west to the poorer east side.

In matters of health, city and countryside had changing roles and functions: To some extent they were complementary, in other occasions they acted as competitors. In any case the interrelatedness of both city and countryside are an important issue throughout the ages.

This conference aims at addressing these issues on various levels. The following examples serve only to indicate major issues.

Different levels of medicalization of the city and the countryside
Health care provision inside the city as compared to the neighbouring areas, paying attention to the presence of all sorts of providers such as barber-surgeons, physicians, lay healers and hospitals and similar institutions.

The main focus will certainly be on institutions, as they are important providers of health-care and because sources on all types of hospitals are rather easily accessible. Papers should therefore address in particular the role played by inmates of these "total" institutions, no matter whether they are located in the countryside or in the city. Which role played migration for the creation and institutional continuity of such hospitals? Does the relation between city and countryside change at a particular time, when a better institutional provision of health care in rural areas is organized? When does this development start in specific European countries, regions and/or specific environments such as larger islands? What were the effects of secularisation on health care provision, which earlier had been provided by monasteries? Did the end of the monasteries have a more important impact on the country-side than on the city? Were these effects very different from one European country to another?

Founding health care institutions in the city or in the country side: What are the arguments of founders and which are the economic considerations in such decisions? Which is the explicit or implicit role ascribed to cities in this historical process of "moving out"? Psychiatric hospitals, special institutions for blind people, hospitals for "cripples" or other handicapped persons, special institutions for water cures could be considered as cases. The more recent trend to create resorts for "wellness" is another example. Building new hospitals inside cities f. e. during the 19th and 20th century is the other side of the same movement: Which are the elements of "nature" or "rural environment" to be integrated into new hospital architecture? Which role did the notion of city or countryside play in this discourse?

Mutual aid associations for cases of illness and/or death inside the cities have traditionally been mainly considered as an institution to supplement the family income, an especially acute problem for recent immigrants. Does the possibility to become a member of such a network make a move to the city an attractive option? Do these associations provide opportunities for immigrants which go far beyond health matters? Is there a distinctive feature between those members who belong to the indigenous population and those who were former immigrants from the countryside? Another aspect of this topic is to discuss, whether city and countryside play a role in the early years of health-care schemes introduced by various national states: Does the urban/rural gap vanish completely as a result of such health care and social security schemes?

Cities as multiplicators of ideas about hygiene: the rediscovery of the classical discourse on dietetics during the Renaissance, but also health-propaganda in the age of Enlightenment as well as the public propaganda of the hygienists in the 19th century, they all started in cities. But many of these health campaigns were - at least partially - focused on the rural population or were imbued with images of healthy or unhealthy life in the city or in the countryside.

Cities are the battle fields of discussions about Public health measures. One special aspect of these debates are assumptions about better and less good places to implement certain measures. Arguments for and against the implementation of new factories are one example, the construction of a sewage system another, the construction of a canal for used water supply another. The question is, for example, whether inhabitants of the wealthier quarters accepted such measures - and what were their arguments pro or contra?

A final issue is the changing role of cities in the innovation of health politics during the 20th century. Does the "nation state" and the later "welfare state" put an end to the special role of cities as compared to the countryside? Do cities loose their "advantage" as laboratories for new forms of health care provision? Or do cities find new terrains of innovative action, such as local health politics for specific vulnerable groups such as people with AIDS or long-distance immigrants. The definition of new topics of public health - as gender specific health experiences - was and may continue to be a field of specific urban action.

HOW TO PROCEED?

Please send an English-language abstract for a paper (one page-length) until February 13th 2005 to the following email address martin.dinges@igm-bosch.de
The abstract must contain name, title, position and institution of the author, email-address, and ordinary mail-address.
You will be informed before mid March whether your proposal has been accepted or not. The guidelines for the preparation and submission of papers will be sent together with the message of acceptance.
Papers will be precirculated and prepublished on the website of PHOENIX TN, two weeks before the conference. This enables every participant to read the papers and to get a precise idea of the other contributions to the conference. During the conference the paper will only be summarized (seven minutes), followed by a comment and a discussion.

Participation is only guaranteed if the deadline for submission of papers is kept: May 15th 2005
For papergivers who are members of PhoenixTN travel expenses, lodging and board during the conference will be paid for.
We encourage especially members of the Austrian Society for the History of Cities (Österreichischer Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung) to give a paper, although in this case we cannot reimburse travel expenses.

Website: http://phoenixtn.net/index.jsp

Place: Vienna, Municipal and Provincial Archives (Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv)
Time: June, 2-4 2005 (arrival: June, 1st, evening; departure June, 5th)

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European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). Third International Conference (February 2005)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Society for Environmental History and the Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Forestali, are pleased to invite proposals for panels, papers and posters for the Third International ESEH Conference.

The theme of the conference is ‘History and Sustainability’. The Conference Committee especially encourages proposals related to the theme of the conference, but contributions that examine any aspect of human - environment - interaction over time are welcome. Scholars from all fields and disciplines are invited. We encourage contributions by graduate students and independent scholars.

Submitting a proposal
In order to make ESEH 2005 conference planning easier, please, submit your proposal via the website form at. In due course, the site will also provide additional information about the conference.

Panels
A panel consists of three papers of 20 Minutes each, with 30 minutes of discussion time (panel duration: 90 minutes). Panel submitters can, but do not need to propose a chairperson. There are no commentators, discussion is with the audience.

Papers
Individual paper submissions will be considered by the committee, but presenters should be aware that the committee cannot guarantee thematically consistent panels for such papers.

Posters
We especially encourage the submission of posters, which will be introduced by authors in a 3 minute statement in the poster plenary session.

Submission & Deadline
Scholars are invited to submit proposals of no more than 600 words per paper in any of the above categories in English by May, 20th, 2004. If you cannot access the web-form on the conference site, send an e-mail to the ESEH secretariat (e-mail: Oosthoek@ontel.com). Please be aware that submissions reaching us after the deadline cannot be processed to guarantee a speedy evaluation and leave time for presenters to apply for travel grants.

Program Committee
An international committee will be responsible for selecting the papers. It consists of Joan Martínez Alier (University of Barcelona, Spain), Richard Hoffmann (York University, Canada), Leos Jelecek (Charles University Prague, Czechia) and Elisabeth Johann (IUFRO, Austria)

Conference Committee Chair: Mauro Agnoletti, Italy
ESEH president: Verena Winiwarter, Austria

Website: http://www.eseh2005.unifi.it/
Contact: Jan Oosthoek (ESEH secretariat), oosthoek@ontel.com

Place: Congress Palace (Palazzo dei Congressi), Piazza Adua 1, Firenze, Italia
Time: February 16-19, 2005

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PD Dr. Sebastian Brather: "Klöster und Herrschaft. Zisterzienser, Siedlungsgeschichte und Landesherren östlich der Elbe"

Siedlungsgeschichte als Forschung über Raum, Umwelt und institutionelle Landorgsanisation wird in diesem Vortrag interdisziplinär verstanden. Dieses ZUG-Minisymposium steht erstmals unter dem Titel "Umweltgeschichte im Dialog", das Zentrum möchte damit Umweltgeschichte mit anderen für sie relevanten Forschungsansätzen ins Gespräch bringen und mögliche Synergien diskutieren - in diesem Fall mit der Siedlungsgeschichte.

Abstract des Vortrags:
Die hochmittelalterliche Ostsiedlung bewirkte – in ihrer Verbindung von Herrschaftsbildung und Landesausbau – im ostelbischen Raum einschneidende Veränderungen, auch der Siedlungsstrukturen. Diese Veränderungen und die Beteiligung der Zisterzienser hieran sind besonders von der älteren deutschen Forschung bisweilen fast mythisch überhöht worden. Dabei hatte man jedoch vor allem die Statuten und Idealvorstellungen des Ordens selbst im Auge und vernachlässigte die tatsächlichen Gegebenheiten.

Inzwischen hat sich die Forschung um eine Relativierung dieser mitunter apologetisch geratenen Auffassungen bemüht und dabei den Einfluß der Zisterzienser gelegentlich marginalisiert. Offensichtlich besteht die latente Gefahr, hierbei in der einen oder der anderen Richtung einem Topos aufzusitzen. Indem die Anstrengungen der Zisterzienser an konkreten Fallbeispielen mit den Anstrengungen anderer geistlicher und weltlicher Grundherrn verglichen werden, läßt sich der relativen Rolle der Klöster näherkommen. Dann kann ermittelt werden, welche Möglichkeiten für die Zisterzienser in der jeweiligen Situation bestanden und wie sie diese Chancen zu nutzen verstanden. Statt der Klöster selbst sollten vielmehr die zisterziensisch beherrschten Räume im Mittelpunkt stehen.

Ein entsprechender siedlungsgeographischer Ansatz sei hier für den Raum östlich der  Elbe vorgeführt, in dem 1. nicht unbedeutende Zisterzen lagen, für den 2. die relevanten Quellen leicht verfügbar sind und für den 3. die Rekonstruktion des spätmittelalterlichen Siedlungsbilds noch relativ verläßlich möglich ist. Außerdem sei auf wesentliche Aspekte des Verhältnisses zwischen Klöstern und Landesherren eingegangen: Gründung, Standort und Besitz; Machtpolitik und Herrschaftssicherung; Architektur und herschaftliche Repräsentation; Hauskloster und Grablege; Rat- und Geldgeber. Sebastian Brather arbeitet am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau. Im laufenden Wintersemester 2004/05 ist er Gastprofessor am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Wien.

http://www.ufg.uni-freiburg.de/d/inst/
http://www.univie.ac.at/urgeschichte/

Ort: IFF, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Wien, Seminarraum 6. Stock
Zeit: Montag, 17. Jänner 2005, 17:00-19:00

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