Maximilians Ruhmeswerk : Künste und Wissenschaften im Umkreis Kaiser Maximilians I. The essays in this volume explore the full scope of Maximilians Ruhmeswerk which adaptively incorporated different literary and aesthetic genres. They examine the Emperors quest to become an uomo universale or Renaissance man in the context of the idea of self fashioning at the focus of recent Renaissance research. In addition the studies consider the impact of changing media conditions as a result of the invention of the printed book