Kurien- und Kulturkontakte im Spiegel der römischen Notarsakten des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts

DEUTSCH: Die Erforschung der nach 1507 in Rom tätigen, von der Kurie zugelassenen, auswärtigen öffentlichen Notare und ihrer Klienten aus ganz Europa ist ein lohnendes Unterfangen und wird maßgeblich möglich durch die Untersuchung der vom Kollegium der Archivschreiber angefertigten Kopien der beglaubigten Rechtsgeschäfte. Diese Rechtsgeschäfte bieten detailreiche Einblicke in sozial-gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Entwicklungen, in die Attraktivität von Kurie und Stadt für Rombesucher in einer Zeit der Umwälzungen mit dem Sacco di Roma und der Reformation. Die personellen Netzwerke der Rombesucher zeigen eine Bipolarität zwischen der Wahrung der eigenen Identität und der gewollten Integration in die römische Gesellschaft. / ENGLISH: Research concerning foreign notaries who were accredited by the Roman Curia and employed after 1507, and their clients from all over Europe is seen to be a worthwhile endeavour. This research is possible largely thanks to the registration of legal transactions certified by the College of Archives’ writers. These transactions offer detailed insights into the social and economic developments and the the Roman Curia’s and the city’s appeal to visitors at a time of change in the wake the Sack of Rome and the Reformation. Personal networks show an ambivalent attitude, between desiring to keep one’s own identity and the wish to integrate into Roman society

Professors of German Universities (e.g. Cologne, Heidelberg) in Italy (1400-1550) and the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG)

The RAG’s task is to collect biographical and social data on those Theologians, Jurists, Physicians, and Masters of Arts, who studied at a university between 1250 and 1550. The information is entered into a prosopographic database that will finally cover the entire territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Non-graduated noble visitors of universities are also taken into account. The RAG, which in the end will be a “who is who” of the scholars of the Old Empire, offers divers new and interdisciplinary perspectives due to its vast collection of data. Qualitative and quantitative statements on the intellectual elite of the Empire, their European networks, as well as institutional and territorial comparisons will be possible. Thus the scholars' role in pre-modern society can be described on a firm empirical basis and explained within the framework of modern educational research, with special reference to social, cultural, and scientific history. Up to 50,000 scholars are to be expected