https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/asembdner/activity/ Activity feed for Alexander Sembdner. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:31:00 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 94855a97b64b83edf62eba9ff49b7ebb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1909376/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:10:14 +0000 0 e5047df472cc76b1b0768ceafcbf5865 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1909352/ Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:42:47 +0000 0 556f99b0b035732b3613d823e5e0446a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1909351/ Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:41:31 +0000 0 74048edfb5c0223e38bee4f16a913ed6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831840/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 02:45:41 +0000 0 f2d24b606856a16605c99c1bd146380b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831003/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:03:01 +0000 The article for the handbook “Residenzstädte im Alten Reich (1300-1800)” offers a brief outline of Leipzig’s function as a residential city in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

]]> 0 cbe61058f8425480903ec72db4585276 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831002/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:53:24 +0000 0 1596e23d4f15eab155d90bbad8bb2b04 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831001/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:48:13 +0000 This article examines the eventful history of the bailiwick of the Benedictine monastery of Remse near Glauchau, founded in the middle of the 12th century. Close to the empire and under royal protection in the High Middle Ages, with the collapse of the Hohenstaufen kingship first the lords of Waldenburg and then, as their heirs, the lords of…[Read more]

]]> 0 72acdc111256651564deb2d49e218d73 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830999/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:20:07 +0000 The article deals with the relationship between Thilos von Trotha, Bishop of Merseburg (1466-1514) and the towns in his diocese in comparison to the diocese of Naumburg in the 15th and 16th centuries. First, the episcopal rule of the towns in the two high bishoprics is compared, especially the question of jurisdiction. Secondly, we ask how and in…[Read more]

]]> 0 88dba0f15422240e7f5c96322096d2a7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830998/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:46:29 +0000 The article deals with the observant Thuringian-Saxon reform congregation of Augustinian hermits around 1500, the order that Luther joined in Erfurt in 1505. The emergence and organization of the reform congregation is examined in a comparative perspective and embedded in the overarching, contemporary context of church and piety history. Finally,…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c699315ef9d3f30fb4bd7639324f756 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830997/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:27:56 +0000 The article examines the prerequisites and conditions of late medieval reform movements in the convents of the Thuringian Augustinian canons from the perspective of organizational sociology. The 15th century was marked by a veritable reform mania to which all institutions were subjected. It was believed, that a return to an old, “better” way of…[Read more]

]]> 0 4145ec564e29dafe6ca40691fe226706 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792885/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:33:41 +0000 0 70c1dd596d5338b287a3ac840845aaf0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748606/ Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:49:52 +0000 0 c7324e7ccb84053c2b1e09fc46cd2a36 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748567/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:31:18 +0000 This article examines the processes of reformation in the episcopal city of Naumburg, which took place in parallel and at different speeds. Drawing on sociological theories of social movements (collective good problem and threshold theory), it is argued that in addition to individual (partly corporate) actors such as the bishop, the sovereign and…[Read more]

]]> 0 f359a367a6fa2dfef35233cfe8ad50a4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748565/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:14:56 +0000 The article highlights the importance and role of Zwickau in the Central German educational and university landscape of the 15th and 16th centuries.

]]> 0 29cce138d94c9df9466896ff29957006 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748562/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:30:02 +0000 The article examines the history of the origins of the Franciscan monastery of Kamenz, founded in 1493, in the context of the late medieval reform movement and against the background of the Bohemian kings’ development of power in Upper Lusatia.

]]> 0 ecfd4447c744adc9880ceb5b327fe44e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748561/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:06:42 +0000 The article examines the prerequisites and conditions of late medieval reform movements in the convents of the Thuringian Augustinian canons from the perspective of organizational sociology. The 15th century was marked by a veritable reform mania to which all institutions were subjected. It was believed, that a return to an old, “better” way of…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbf3b4819b145408733b3981ed1e3734 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748559/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 08:47:09 +0000 The article explores the question what kind of economical impact late-medieval universities could make on their surrounding cities. By studying the sources for the university of Leipzig (founded in 1409) it can be shown, that despite a proportionately rather high amount of students in the city, the economic impact should not be overestimated.…[Read more]

]]> 0 e07ca6d62b40dc15d9518b9113a50437 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748558/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 08:20:15 +0000 This article is a draft of my post-doc project concerning the late-medieval phenomenon of inter-dynastic divisions (Herrschaftsteilungen) between two or more successors in german higher nobility. What are the preconditions of division, why did houses divide and what (political, economical and cultural) implications arise from the practice of…[Read more]

]]> 0 790cce341c1944cb9fcce7b4e14c27b9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705208/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:39:44 +0000 0 10d85c53f2702ee6b3f96bd23bda50dc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705097/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:12:06 +0000 0 2416a39c9800a9f59207e28c9c5b0282 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1698189/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:38:34 +0000 Dieser kleine Beitrag ist das Ergebnis eines Vortrags, den ich im Rahmen des im Sommersemester 2017 am Historischen Seminar der Universität Leipzig abgehaltenen Projektmoduls „Doing History. Anwendung von Methoden und Theorien der Geschichtswissenschaft.“ (gefördert durch die LaborUni der Universität Leipzig) gehalten habe. Das Ziel des Moduls…[Read more]

]]> 0 67fdacabe3431953cd16b6552c767403 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1698186/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:26:38 +0000 Der Beitrag versucht mit Hilfe der quantativen Netzwerkanalyse die Rolle des Collegiums Beate Mariae Virginis, eines der vier Kollegienhäuser der mittelalterlichen Universität Leipzig, und die Funktion ihrer Mitglieder, die sich exklusiv aus Magistern schlesischer und preußischer Herkunft rekrutierten, innerhalb des universitären Kontextes und den…[Read more]

]]> 0 38ce448dc9284c11dee990980e1975ec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1698172/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:52:57 +0000 A biographical article about Ulrich von Radefeld, Bishop of Naumburg (1394-1409).

]]> 0 ddfb8da3fd99227f7ef6bae36f777ef9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1698169/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:35:10 +0000 0 8b516c4fd8692d3dc0391f87334844aa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697738/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:14:18 +0000 0 fa73a0b61d69cbbe35137c644b7ae5bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697737/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:12:48 +0000 Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Vor- und Gründungsgeschichte des 1492 eingerichteten Franziskanerklosters St. Annen in Kamenz (Oberlausitz). Dabei werden zum einen die bisher in der einschlägigen Forschung bemühten Narrative hinsichtlich der Gründungstradition des Kamenzer Klosters kritisch hinterfragt. Zum anderen wird die Gründungsgeschichte des Konv…[Read more]

]]> 0 590c0e0922de96ffd7858c3d278b4fae https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697729/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:53:34 +0000 Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die historischen und kunsthistorischen Perspektiven der im Naumburg Kolleg, einem von der Volkswagenstiftung geförderten interdisziplinären Graduiertenkolleg zur Erforschung des Naumburger Westchors, betrieben Dissertationsvorhaben.
The article presents the new historical and art historical perspectives of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd91277b089cdcca06906ca5cffc92e9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697032/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:08:14 +0000 Der Artikel untersucht die vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen der Stadt und der Universität Leipzig im 15. Jahrhundert. Dabei spielen neben Konflikten aufgrund unterschiedlicher Gerichtsbarkeiten und besonderer Steuervergünstigungen auch die engen personalen Verflechtungen zwischen Stadtrat und Universitätsleitung eine wichtige Rolle. Insgesamt ist…[Read more]

]]> 0 31b5d1c1d0b5d0db39c1158124eb1f7f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697026/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:04:00 +0000 Die Geschichte der spätmittelalterlichen Universität Leipzig ist eng mit der Geschichte der Stadt verbunden, weshalb die Studie die ökonomischen, rechtlichen und sozialen Phänomene für die ersten 130 Jahre der Hochschule umfassend behandelt. Auf der Grundlage universitärer wie auch bisher kaum benutzter städtischer Quellen werden der Alltag von St…[Read more]

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