Reality
As Realienkunde the sub-discipline is auxiliary sciences of history , made up, with the objects as sources for historians busy. On the one hand, she examines individual objects such as crowns , works of art, etc., which are highlighted as insignia , on the other hand, she examines the objects of everyday life and examines the material culture of past eras. Unlike medieval archeology, the archaeological finds are only one source of their work among others. Visual sources, which are supplemented by written messages in administrative documents, are of great importance.
An important representative of insignia is Percy Ernst Schramm . Gerhard Jaritz (* 1949) is important for research into material culture .
In addition to historical studies, Medieval literary studies are also interested in the research results of Realienkunde, as they help to identify the subjects mentioned in medieval literature.
Reality studies are particularly carried out at the Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age in Krems. In Germany there is a research institute for Realienkunde at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and a Research Center for Realienkunde at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, which is among other things the editor of the Real Lexicon on German Art History . In October 2010, also the on who has Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is moved DFG network "New Old objectivity. Realienkunde of the Middle Ages from a cultural-historical perspective ”started his work.
literature
- Percy Ernst Schramm : Signs of rule and state symbols. Contributions to their history from the third to the sixteenth century (= writings on the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Volume 13). 5 volumes, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1954–1978 (reprinted 1978).
- Research into everyday life and material culture in the Middle Ages. Method - goal - realization, internat. Round table discussion, Krems ad Donau, 20.IX.1982 (= publications of the Institute for Medieval Reality Studies in Austria. Volume 6; Reports from the meetings of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Philosophical-Historical Class. Volume 4). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1984, ISBN 978-3-7001-0639-5 .
- Helmut Hundsbichler: Things and people. The Realienkunde concept. In: Derselbe et al. (Ed.): The variety of things (= research of the Institute for Realienkunde of the Middle Ages and the early modern times. Discussions and materials. Volume 3). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-3-7001-2517-4 , pp. 29–62.
- Harry Kühnel : Realienkunde of the Middle Ages and the early modern times. Attempt at a representation - requirement of the present. In: Yearbook for Regional Studies of Lower Austria , New Series, Volume 37, 1965/1967, pp. 215–242 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
- Peter Wolf: Relics of things. In: Michael Maurer (Ed.): Outline of the historical sciences. Volume 4: Sources. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-15-017030-4 , p. 126 ff.
Web links
- RDK laboratory
- Brief introduction (University of Munich)
- Literature from the Munich auxiliary scientific bibliography