This article focuses on the involvement of Viennese elites in wide-reaching political conflicts around 1400. Central European princes often held positions as city lords, which resulted in ambivalent relations between them and urban elites, as well as with their kin residing in the countryside. Setting aside grand categories of institutional history in favor of the interactions and relations of concrete actors, their social networks, and their involvement in shaping politics, the article follows six urban actors through a major conflict that involved the city lords, urban authorities, and individual actors and eventually resulted in the beheading of three of them. The article adopts a prosopographical approach to find out more about patterns of social costs and benefits in these conflicts. It argues that considering polyvalent and relational dimensions of belonging can help us better understand constellations of conflict and alliance and the modes and mechanisms of late medieval politics. It eventually establishes the boundaries of social network approaches when it comes to assessing individual motives and their alleged resonance in contemporary narratives of community.

本文重点关注1400年左右维也纳精英卷入影响广泛的政治冲突。中欧王子经常担任城主，这导致他们与城市精英以及居住在乡村的亲属之间存在矛盾的关系。抛开制度历史的宏大范畴，文章关注具体行动者的互动和关系、他们的社交网络以及他们对政治塑造的参与，通过一场涉及城市领主、城市当局和个人的重大冲突，追踪了六位城市行动者。演员，最终导致其中三人被斩首。本文采用亲口学方法来更多地了解这些冲突中的社会成本和收益模式。它认为，考虑归属感的多价和关系维度可以帮助我们更好地理解冲突和联盟的星座以及中世纪晚期政治的模式和机制。在评估个人动机及其在当代社区叙事中所谓的共鸣时，它最终确立了社交网络方法的界限。