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Author Scales, Len

Title The Shaping of German Identity : Authority and Crisis, 1245-1414
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (638 pages)
Contents Cover; The Shaping of German Identity; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: German questions; Long journey; Concepts, terms, names; 1: Modern history: inventing the medieval German nation; Wilhelmine Gothic; Sonderweg; The medieval nation: roots and routes; Reframing the nation: the late Middle Ages; 2: Ruled out: monarchy, government and 'state' in Germany; At the tomb of Archbishop Siegfried; Monarchy, government and nation: a European paradigm; State of dissolution: monarchy and government in Germany
3: Realm of imagination: communicating power after the HohenstaufenCommunicating Landscapes; Monarchy in mind; Communicating power; 4: Shades of a kingdom: in search of a German political community; At the Cologne Gate; The kingdom in the east; German government, German society; 5: The matter of Rome: universalising political identities; A lesson from Viterbo; Imperium; The persistence of imperialism; Imperial crisis, imperial public; The Empire in debate; 6: Roman Empire, German nation: the German imperial tradition; A German world order; The matter of Germany
Imperial princes, German princesTranslatio imperii; Election and identity; 7: Trojans, giants and other Germans: peoplehoods forgotten, remembered and relocated; Wild men; Amnesia; Origines gentium; The great Charles; The course of German history; 8: Rome's barbarians: accounting for the Germans; Thinking with monsters; Men destined for war; 9: East: applying identities; Under the Virgin's mantle; Germans and the eastern Other; Swords and ploughshares: Germans in the east; Unsettled identities; Ethnic groups and boundaries; Wider horizons: Teutonic Order and Hansa
10: Being German (I): place and nameIdentifying landscapes; On German soil; Naming land and people; 11: Being German (II): language and locality; Kulturnation; Language and people; Homelands; Conclusion: endings and beginnings; Becoming visible; Departures; Sources and bibliography; UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES; PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY WORKS; Index
Summary German identity, a key force in history, took shape during the late Middle Ages. This book explains how and why
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject National characteristics, German -- History -- To 1500
Nationalism -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
Political culture -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
Monarchy -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
Crises -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Crises
International relations
Monarchy
National characteristics, German
Nationalism
Political culture
Politics and government
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1273-1517. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054618
Germany -- History -- 1273-1517. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054547
Germany -- Relations -- Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire -- Relations -- Germany
Subject Europe -- Holy Roman Empire
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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