Shaping of German Identity - Authority and Crisis, 1245-1414

Informationen zum Autor Len Scales is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Durham University. He has published widely both on late medieval German history and on the history of peoples and nations in medieval Europe. He is the editor (with Oliver Zimmer) of Power and the Nation in European History (Cambridge, 2005). Klappentext German identity, a key force in history, took shape during the late Middle Ages. This book explains how and why. Zusammenfassung For the first time in any language this book recounts the formation of German identity in the late Middle Ages. Offering a significant new perspective on German history and European nation-making! it shows how German identity took shape in a period of weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: German questions; 1. Modern history: inventing the medieval German nation; 2. Ruled out: monarchy, government and 'state' in Germany; 3. Realm of imagination: communicating power after the Hohenstaufen; 4. Shades of a kingdom: in search of a German political community; 5. The matter of Rome: universalising political identities; 6. Roman empire, German nation: the German imperial tradition; 7. Trojans, Giants and other Germans: peoplehoods forgotten, remembered and relocated; 8. Rome's Barbarians: accounting for the Germans; 9. East: applying identities; 10. Being German (I): place and name; 11. Being German (II): language and locality; Conclusion: endings and beginnings; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Len Scales, Len (University of Durham) Scales, Leonard Scales, Scales Len
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9780521573337
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57333-7
• No. of pages: 636
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages