Diary-writing at European courts at the end of the Old Regime: Concepts of person, ritual and gender (Teilbereich I: Ritualisierte Lebensweisen)

旧政权末期欧洲宫廷的日记写作：人、仪式和性别的概念（第一区：仪式化的生活方式）

• 批准号: 5422257
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Claudia Ulbrich
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FMI)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2003-12-31 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5422257?language=en
• 关键词: Diary; writing; European; courts; end

This project aims to collect, explore, contextualise and analyse diaries written at European courts in the second half of the 18th century, both as texts, and as historical sources. At the early modern courts personal relations were determined by hierarchy and etiquette, and public life took prominence over private life. By the middle of the 18th century legitimacy of rank by birth and of the high costs of a ceremonial court was being eroded, both from the inside and the outside. There was also an increasing production of egodocuments, which has usually been interpreted as a sign of growing introspection and self-questioning, and connected with the "birth of the individual". Amongst key questions addressed in the project are to what extent the writing of a private diary at court was used to solve tensions between public and private and to create a separate persona? Was this persona, and in a wider sense the concept of person, inner-directed, or relational, that is determined by the place of the author within the court-hierarchy and family? To what extent was is shaped by the rituals of his or her environment? To what extent was it gendered? During the first two years the research will concentrate on the Dutch Stadholderate court. In the second stage the scope will be widened to the Prussian and Habsburg courts, to compare the results and test the hypotheses based on the Dutch case-study. Central to the project will be an in-depth comparison between three extensive court diaries, written in The Hague (Hardenbroek, 1759-1787), in Berlin (Lehndorff, 1750-1775) and in Vienna (Khevenhüller-Metsch, 1742-1776).

该项目旨在收集、探索、背景化和分析 18 世纪下半叶在欧洲宫廷写下的日记，这些日记既作为文本，又作为历史资料。在现代早期的宫廷中，个人关系是由等级制度和礼仪以及公共事务决定的。到了 18 世纪中叶，出生地位的合法性和礼仪宫廷的高昂费用都受到了侵蚀，无论是内部还是外部。自我文件，通常被解释为日益内省和自我质疑的标志，并与“个人的诞生”相关。该项目解决的关键问题包括在法庭上使用私人日记的程度。解决公共和私人之间的紧张关系并创建一个单独的人物角色，从更广泛的意义上讲，这个人物角色是内在导向的还是关系性的，是由作者在法院等级制度中的地位决定的？家庭？在多大程度上是由他或她的环境的仪式所塑造的？在最初的两年中，研究将集中在荷兰总督宫廷上，在第二阶段中，范围将扩大到普鲁士和其他国家。哈布斯堡王朝法院，以比较结果并检验基于荷兰案例研究的假设，该项目的核心将是对海牙撰写的三份内容广泛的法庭日记进行深入比较（Hardenbroek， 1759-1787）、柏林（Lehndorff，1750-1775）和维也纳（Khevenhüller-Metsch，1742-1776）。