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The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

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The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350 book

Essays by German Historians

The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

DOI link for The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350 book

Essays by German Historians
Edited ByGraham A. Loud, Jochen Schenk
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 6 July 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554891
Pages 442 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315554891
SubjectsHumanities
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Loud, G. (Ed.), Schenk, J. (Ed.). (2017). The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554891

The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local principalities. These became the dominant governmental institutions of the late medieval Reich, whose nominal monarchs needed to work with the princes if they were to possess any effective authority. Previous scholarship in English has tended to look at medieval Germany primarily in terms of the struggles and eventual decline of monarchical authority during the Salian and Staufen eras – in other words, at the "failure" of a centralised monarchy. Today, the federalised nature of late medieval and early modern Germany seems a more natural and understandable phenomenon than it did during previous eras when state-building appeared to be the natural and inevitable process of historical development, and any deviation from the path towards a centralised state seemed to be an aberration. In addition, by looking at the origins and consolidation of the principalities, the book also brings an English audience into contact with the modern German tradition of regional history (Landesgeschichte). These path-breaking essays open a vista into the richness and complexity of German medieval history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

section A|36 pages

Introductory essays

chapter 1|20 pages

A political and social revolution

The development of the territorial principalities in Germany
WithGraham A. Loud

chapter 2|14 pages

The growth of princely authority

Themes and problems 1
WithJörg Rogge

section B|100 pages

Forms and structures of power

chapter 3|21 pages

Princely lordship in the reign of Frederick Barbarossa

A historiographical analysis
WithWerner Hechberger

chapter 4|8 pages

Urban lordships

WithGabriel Zeilinger

chapter 5|15 pages

The imperial city

The example of Nuremberg
WithCarla Meyer-Schlenkrich

chapter 6|18 pages

Forms and structures of power

Ecclesiastical lordship
WithAndreas Bihrer

chapter 7|20 pages

Foundations and forms of princely lordship

The archbishopric of Mainz
WithJoachim Schneider

chapter 8|16 pages

Eichstätt

Abbey, diocese, lordship
WithHelmut Flachenecker

section C|68 pages

Strategies of power

chapter 9|21 pages

Marriage and inheritance

WithKarl-Heinz Spieß

chapter 10|21 pages

The propaganda of power

Memoria, history, patronage
WithStefan Tebruck

chapter 11|24 pages

Violence, feud, and peacemaking

WithChristine Reinle

section D|75 pages

The geography of power

chapter 12|13 pages

Centres and peripheries of power

WithPaul-Joachim Heinig

chapter 13|19 pages

The territorial principalities in Lotharingia

WithMichel Margue, Michel Pauly

chapter 14|17 pages

The rise of the Wettins

WithAndré Thieme

chapter 15|8 pages

Saxony after 1180

WithArnd Reitemeier

chapter 16|16 pages

Pomerania, Mecklenburg and the ‘Baltic frontier’

Adaptation and alliances
WithOliver Auge

section E|66 pages

The consolidation, expansion and disruption of power

chapter 17|15 pages

The Zähringer in Swabia and Burgundy

WithThomas Zotz

chapter 18|14 pages

A success story

Brandenburg in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
WithLutz Partenheimer

chapter 19|17 pages

The Babenbergs

From frontier march to principality
WithChristina Lutter

chapter 20|18 pages

Shaping a dominion

Habsburg beginnings
WithMartina Stercken
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