Kaiser Sigismund (1368–1437)

This stimulating collection of articles, edited by Karel Hruza and Alexandra Kaar, seeks to bring new impetus to the study of Sigismund of Luxemburg (1369–1437), a man who acquired no fewer than four kingdoms in his lifetime. As King of Hungary (1387), King of the Romans (1410), King of Bohemia (1419), King of the Lombards (1431) and Holy Roman Emperor (1433), Sigismund was a ruler of great significance, whose influence was felt throughout Christendom. This volume, as Kaar states rather modestly in her concluding article, attempts ‘to correct and complement the older pictures of Sigismund’s personality and rule’. It accomplishes this and much more. The articles collected in this volume are based on eighteen papers given at a conference held in December 2007 at the Masaryk University in Brno, entitled ‘Kaiser Sigismund: Herrschaftspraxis, Urkunden und Rituale’. The conference was held to conclude the research project entitled ‘Sigismund (†1437), Kaiser im Reich, in Ungarn und in Böhmen’, which was funded by the Austrian Science Fund and based in Vienna. The articles, divided into three sections, are principally concerned with Sigismund’s Herrschaftspraxis and the various ways in which he exercised his authority and overcame the challenges that came with ruling so many lands throughout eastern and central Europe

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