Proceedings of 2009 Wirth Institute conference “Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519): Perceptions, Transfers, Comparisons” published
January 24, 2012
The papers presented at the Wirth Institute’s international conference on the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I who ruled in the decades around 1500 were recently published in Austria as part of volume 27 of the series Innsbrucker Historische Studien. Edited by Heinz Noflatscher of the Universität Innsbruck, Bertrand Schnerb of the Université de Lille, and Michael A. Chisholm, the former Assistant Director of the Wirth Institute, these 29 papers, published in German, French, and English, discuss themes such as political communication at the court, festivities held there, the role of the empress Bianca Maria Sforza, and the ways by which Maximilian manipulated his image and the ways his image was later manipulated. The scholars came from ten different countries on three continents and represented a variety of academic fields including history, ethnology, economics, medieval studies, political economy, art, and church history. Contributors included Wirth Institute Director Joseph F. Patrouch whose essay was titled “Maximilian I as Reflected in the Later Sixteenth Century.”
Heinz Noflatscher, Michael A. Chisholm, Bertrand Schnerb, editors,
Maximilian I. 1459-1519: Wahrnehmung-Übersetzungen-
Gender (Innsbruck, Vienna, and Bozen: StudienVerlag, 2011.