Power in landscape

Mihailo St Popović, Veronika Polloczek, Bernhard Koschicek, Stefan Eichert, Markus Breier

In which way does power manifest itself? How can we document it? Written sources, monuments, and artefacts from the Middle Ages testify to a living environment, which still influences our present days. By classifying these testimonies, interrelating and locating them, one could describe medieval centres of power more properly in a spatial context, structures of power in a more complex way in terms of hierarchy, and the exercise of power more concretely from a formal perspective, all of them together as maps of power. The digital Cluster Project Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World of the Institute of Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences reconstructs these power structures. Due to assembling many and quite different data in a project-related database, interactive maps can be provided online. They illustrate how medieval power...