🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

This is fascinating - thank you for sharing. Two quick thoughts on the conclusions you draw: 1) Don't you think changing technologies should inflect how we interpret (lack of) rulers' movements? Frederick III (1440-93) travelled little compared to earlier emperors, but the growth of literacy,

Thank you so very much for these comments which are all super relevant! Some quick reactions: 1. We agree that the dynamics of (itinerant) rule start changing with the Habsburgs towards the end of the period we analyze. We therefore stop with Maximilian I, who still traveled an avg 2k-3k km/year.

It would be interesting to compare Max to, say, Ferdinand I. Impressionistically, he seems to have travelled around the Empire almost as much as his grandfather.

I don't know of any secondary literature on the topic, and there aren't databases like RI for the rulers after Max (I think the volume of sources is too overwhelming), but a basic itinerary for Ferdinand was published all the way back in 1843 by Anton von Gévay: books.google.com/books/about/...