
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of genealogical charts -- List of maps -- List of figures -- Preface -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Genealogical charts -- Maps -- SECTION A Introductory essays -- 1 A political and social revolution: the development of the territorial principalities in Germany -- 2 The growth of princely authority: themes and problems -- SECTION B Forms and structures of power -- 3 Princely lordship in the reign of Frederick Barbarossa: a historiographical analysis -- 4 Urban lordships -- 5 The imperial city: the example of Nuremberg -- 6 Forms and structures of power: ecclesiastical lordship -- 7 Foundations and forms of princely lordship: the archbishopric of Mainz -- 8 Eichstätt: abbey, diocese, lordship -- SECTION C Strategies of power -- 9 Marriage and inheritance -- 10 The propaganda of power: memoria, history, patronage -- 11 Violence, feud, and peacemaking -- SECTION D The geography of power -- 12 Centres and peripheries of power -- 13 The territorial principalities in Lotharingia -- 14 The rise of the Wettins -- 15 Saxony after 1180 -- 16 Pomerania, Mecklenburg and the 'Baltic frontier': adaptation and alliances -- SECTION E The consolidation, expansion and disruption of power -- 17 The Zähringer in Swabia and Burgundy -- 18 A success story: Brandenburg in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- 19 The Babenbergs: from frontier march to principality -- 20 Shaping a dominion: Habsburg beginnings -- Appendix: selected primary sources -- (a) The Privilegium Minus 1156 -- (b) The Gelnhausen charter 1180 -- (c) The confederation with the ecclesiastical princes 1220 -- (d) The statute in favour of the princes 1230 -- (e) The Mainz land peace 1235 -- (f) The creation of the duchy of Brunswick 1235 -- Glossary -- Bibliographies -- Index
Page Count:
399
Publication Date:
2017-01-01
ISBN-10:
1472448421
ISBN-13:
9781472448422
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