Power and Property in Medieval Germany
Power and Property in Medieval Germany

Author: Benjamin Arnold

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780199272211

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In 'Power and Property in Medieval Germany', Professor Arnold looks at the problems posed by power and property in a medieval society, in this case the German kingdom. He explains the ongoing social and economic relationships between classes and institutions, peasants and lords, the royal court, towns and townsfolk, and the Church and aristocracy.

Brides and Doom
Brides and Doom

Author: Jerold C. Frakes

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Examines gender issues that appear in the heroic epics Nibelungenlied, Diu Dlage, and Kudrun, all of which revolve around women. Reviews the conventional scholarship, and discusses property and power, intimate conversations and political strategies, Teuton as Amazon, sovereignty and class, and other topics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Princes and Territories in Medieval Germany
Princes and Territories in Medieval Germany

Author: Benjamin Arnold

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-01-29

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780521521482

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A powerful analysis of regional power, filling a major gap in English language writing on medieval Germany.

The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350
The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

Author: Graham A. Loud

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1317021991

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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.

Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, C.936-1075
Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, C.936-1075

Author: John W. Bernhardt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-22

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780521521833

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In examining the relationship between the royal monasteries in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany and the German monarchs, this book assimilates a great deal of European scholarship on a central problem - that of the realities and structures of power. It focuses on the practical aspects of governing without a capital and while constantly in motion, and on the payments and services which monasteries provided to the king and which in turn supported the king's travel economically and politically. Royal-monastic relations are investigated in the context of the 'itinerant kingship' of the period to determine how this relationship functioned in practice. It emerges that German rulers did in fact make much greater use of their royal monasteries than has hitherto been recognised.

Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe
Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe

Author: Hans J. Hummer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-01-12

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1139448544

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How exactly did political power operate in early medieval Europe? Taking Alsace as his focus, Hans Hummer offers an intriguing new case study on localised and centralised power and the relationship between the two from c. 600–1000. Providing a panoramic survey of the sources from the region, which include charters, notarial formulas, royal instruments, and Old High German literature, he untangles the networks of monasteries and kin groups which made up the political landscape of Alsace, and shows the significance of monastic control in shaping that landscape. He also investigates this local structure in light of comparative evidence from other regions. He tracks the emergence of the distinctive local order during the seventh century to its eventual decline in the late tenth century in the face of radical monastic reform. Highly original and well balanced, this 2006 work is of interest to all students of medieval political structures.

A Source Book for Mediæval History
A Source Book for Mediæval History

Author: Oliver J. Thatcher

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.