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Royal and princely courts in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period did not only fill the roles of centers of government. The striving for a synthesis between power and the mind made courts into sites of art and literature, of instruction and education. Sons of nobles learned at court not only the use of weapons, but also reading, writing and arithmetic. Jousting gave young knights the opportunity to test their weapons skills and horsemanship. Moreover festivities were a part of court life, and feasts were celebrated extravagantly. Those nobles who lived as knights as well as the academically educated bourgeois used royal and princely courts as opportunities for assuring their professional careers and for social advancement. The reality of the social and ruling fabric of the court included in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period some rough criticism from those eloquent contemporaries who branded the court as a morally corrupt place of vices. Church reformers brought the courtly lifestyle and the Christian ethic into irreconcilable contrast. How Enea Silvio Piccolimini, the humanist occupying the seat of St. Peter in Rome, and Ulrich von Hutten, the knightly poet, perceived, criticized and justified courtly life, is the subject of this book.
List of contents
Vorwort . . . vii
Einleitende Frage- und Problemstellungen . . . 1
Hofkritische Traditionen . . . 2
Realitat und Fiktion. . . . 9
I. ENEA SILVIO PICCOLOMINI, DE MISERIIS CURIALIUM
Bildnis Enea Silvio Piccolominis . . . 14
Einleitung . . . 15
Biographie des Autors . . . 15
Literarische Voraussetzungen: Entstehungsbedingungen, Intentionen, Vorbehalte . . . 16
Der Hof als Statte des Lasters und der Barbarei . . . 21
Lateinisch-Deutsche Edition: Enea Silvio Piccolomini, De miseriis curialium . . . 23
Anhang: Ein unbekannter Originalbrief des Enea Silvio
Piccolomini im Archiv der Franziskanerprovinz in Hall in Tirol, Urkunde. . . 113
II. VLRICHI DE HVTTEN, EQUITIS GERMANI AULA DIALOGUS
Bildnis Ulrichs vonHutten . . . 118
Einleitung . . . 119
Biographie des Autors . . . 119
Last und Laster des Hoflebens . . . 121
Worum es Ulrich von Hutten in seiner Schrift uber den Hof eigentlich ging. . . 125
Uberlieferung, Textgestaltung, Ubersetzung. . . 133
Lateinisch-Deutsche Edition: Vlrichi de Hutten, Equitis Germani Aula Dialogus . . . 137
Jo[annes] Frobenius grust ThomasMorus, den Rat des Konigs der Englander . . . 139
Des Ritters Ulrich von Hutten Vorwort zu seinem Dialog Aula an den Arzt Heinrich Stromer (von Auerbach) . . . . 143
Ulrichs von Hutten, eines deutschen Ritters, Dialog Aula. . . . 151
Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis . . . 227
Personenregister . . . 237
About the author
Klaus Schreiner ist Professor em. für Mittelalterliche Geschichte.
