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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.
Contents
Section A: Introductory Essays
1. A Political and Social Revolution: The Development of the Territorial Principalities in Germany
[Graham A. Loud]
2. The Growth of Princely Authority: Themes and Problems
[Jörg Rogge]
Section B: Forms and Structures of Power
3. Princely Lordship in the Reign of Frederick Barbarossa: An Historiographical Analysis
[Werner Hechberger]
4. Urban Lordships
[Gabriel Zeilinger]
5. The Imperial Town: The Example of Nuremberg
[Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich]
6. Forms and Structures of Power: Ecclesiastical Lordship
[Andreas Bihrer]
7. Foundations and Forms of Princely Lordship: The Archbishopric of Mainz
[Joachim Schneider]
8. Eichstätt: Abbey, Diocese, Lordship
[Helmut Flachenecker]
Section C: Strategies of Power
9. Marriage and Inheritance
[Karl-Heinz Spiess]
10. The Propaganda of Power: Memoria, History, Patronage
[Stefan Tebruck]
11. Violence, Feud, and Peacemaking
[Christine Reinle]
Section D: The Geography of Power
12. Centres and Peripheries of Power
[Paul-Joachim Heinig]
13. The Territorial Principalities in Lotharingia
[Michel Margue and Michel Pauly]
14. The Rise of the Wettins
[André Thieme]
15. Saxony After 1180
[Arnd Reitemeier]
16. Pomerania, Mecklenburg and the "Baltic Frontier": Adaptation and Alliances
[Oliver Auge]
Section E: The Consolidation, Expansion and Disruption of
