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List of 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 Power
17. The Zähringer in Swabia and Burgundy
[Thomas Zotz]
18. A Success Story: Brandenburg in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
[Lutz Partenheimer]
19. The Babenbergs: Frontier March to Principality
[Christina Lutter]
20. Shaping a Dominion: Habsburg Beginnings
[Martina Stercken]
Appendix: Selected Primary Sources
[Translated by Graham A. Loud]
About the author
Graham A. Loud is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds and was Head of the School of History at Leeds from 2012-15.
Jochen Schenk has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the German Historical Institute in London and a temporary lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
Summary
This book examines one of most important themes of German history: the development of the local principalities, which became the dominant governmental institutions of the late medieval Reich. By viewing the history of medieval Germany from the localities, these path-breaking essays open a vista into the richness and complexity of its history.
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"It has not been possible to do justice to all the contributions in this volume within the word limit of this review."
- Johanna Dale, University College London
