1st Edition
The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350 Essays by German Historians
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
Biography
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.
"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
