Science Talk: Communication in politics and knowledge: letters - languages - scripts and cyphers

Science Talk

1.7.2022, HS 30, Hauptuniversität Wien

9-16 Uhr

Organisation: Marco Vito / Meta Niederkorn

Science Talk
1.7.2022, HS 30, Hauptuniversität Wien
9-16 Uhr
Organisation: Marco Vito / Meta Niederkorn

 

This meeting will give a chance to discuss different ideas about political communication
What means politics and political communication in this time (1450-1750)?
Themes of massages

  • The Age of Secretaries / the Age of Writing masters
    Writing – which script fits to which content (‘The Writing-Masters Voice’!)
    Methods (‘in consilio domini ducis’, secretaries’ hand /secretary and statecraft)
  • Coding – decoding – recoding
  • Intensification of Contacts – messages – mobility – transport of messages
  • Needs space, material and knowledge

https://www.oesta.gv.at/veroeffentlichungen/archivale-des-monats/archivale-des-monats-maerz-2021.html


Participants (work in progress)

  • Flora Bergen (DOC-School Vienna)
    Politics and political communication in context of Ladislaus Postumus
  • Eveline Brugger, Univ. Doz., Dr.
    "Schriftlichkeit im jüdisch-christlichen Kontakt im österreichischen Spätmittelalter"?
  • Patrick Fiska (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Mag.Mag,T
    Transmission of knowledge by letters
  • Daniel Luger (Dep. of History, Univ. Graz) Univ. Doz., Mag. Dr.
    „Dominus naturalis“ im Herzogtum Österreich und den benachbarten Fürstentümern um die Mitte des 15. Jhs. / Dominus naturalis – About „natural heirs” and “natural lords“ in Central Europe around the middle of the 15th century.
  • Meta Niederkorn
    “Rhetorica - Ars Dictaminis” – Graduated Experts and political Communication (Johannes Trithemius’Steganographia in discussion)
  • Katalin Prajda (WISO), Dr.
    Political Communication and Chancellery Pratice in Early Renaissance Florence
  • Marco Vito (Doc- School Vienna, Univ. Salerno)
  • Andreas Zajic (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Univ. Doz., Mag. Dr.
  • Guests –from “Forschungsseminar”/Research-Seminary: Universities in the middles Ages