Churchman, Jurist, Artist: Winand Ort von Steeg and his Learned Colleagues (around 1426)
Publisher DOI
Abstract
The jurist Winand von Steeg was a particularly versatile and distinctive, albeit very typical, representative of his profession. His portrait shows him looking friendly, and a little thoughtful, in the process of writing an expert report. The situation would have been familiar because he painted it himself. Apart from all else, he is interesting to us as a man with a university education, and a doctor of the canon law. This makes him an ideal test case for our digital research project Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG), which aims at investigating the university-trained scholars of the Holy Roman Empire from the perspective of personal history, exploring their lives, their knowledge, their social impact and the specific culture that developed around them, from its beginnings to the middle of the 16th century.
Date Issued
2025-12-11
Publication Type
Article
Subjects
academic prosopography
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scholars
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councillors
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networking
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knowledge
Language(s)
en
Additional Credits
Journal
Acta Mediaevalia. Series Nova
Publisher
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawla II
ISSN
3071-7981
3071-7523
Access(Rights)
open.access