About: | Robyn Dora Radway |
Position: | Key Researcher |
Node: | Geographies of Power |
Early modern Eastern Central Europe, in particular Hungary, was at the crossroads between Habsburg and Ottoman imperial ambitions. Courts, urban centres, market towns, trade routes, diplomatic interactions, and military encounters each led to a matrix of entanglements that stretched across the far corners of both imperial projects into Europe and Asia. Objects (works on paper, textiles, metalwork, ceramics), texts (archival documents, ego documents, and narrative sources), and built environments preserved in the region, and in Austrian collections in particular, bear witness to early modern circulations at these crossroads. A special goal of this case study is to research, teach, and engage in public history projects with the aim of globalising our understanding of Habsburg history. The collections preserved in Austria, not only about the Habsburg past but also from the Ottoman realm, will take centre stage in this enterprise.