University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. — 256 p. This study of the functions of lordship in a medieval society focuses on the Eichstatt region, an area on the borders of the German provinces of Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. It argues that the area achieved orderly social and legal processes as an alternative to a centralized monarchy. In this examination of the functions of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. — 260 p. Medieval Germany 500-1300 is an interpretation of the foundation of Germany based upon the three most outstanding characteristics of the medieval polity: its division into several distinct peoples with their own customs, dialects, and economic interests from whom the later "Germans" would be drawn; the imperial ambitions to which the...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 384 p. Provocative interrogation of how the Ottonian kingdom grew and flourished, focussing on the resources required. The Ottonians were the most powerful monarchs in Europe during the tenth and early eleventh century, exercising hegemony in West Francia, Burgundy, and much of Italy in addition to ruling the German realm. Despite their enormous political...
Westholme Publishing, 2015. — 224 p. One of the most remarkable personalities of the Middle Ages, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen was born in 1194. His parents - the reigning Holy Roman Emperor and the heiress to the Kingdom of Sicily - belonged to two of the leading ruling families in medieval Europe. The lands controlled by these two families extended from southern Denmark to...
New Edition. — Cornell University Press, 2019. — 324 p. First published 1995. Freed documents the network of marriage practices among ministerials in the archdiocese of Salzburg and in the process reconstructs an important and previously unexplored chapter in the rise of the German principalities. John B. Freed is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State...
Philipp von Zabern, 2017. — 512 S. Bernd Fuhrmanns umfassende Darstellung über Deutschland im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit verbindet erstmals systematisch die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte mit der Umweltgeschichte, die heute mehr denn je im Fokus steht. Ihre Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung sind von großer Bedeutung. Schon der Einfluss...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 224 p. In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past changed how they saw the present. New accounts of former leaders and their deeds could strengthen their successors, establish novel claims to power, or criticize the current ruler. After 888, when the Carolingian Empire fractured into the smaller kingdoms of medieval western...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 300 p. In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries. Theophanu and Adelheid were two of the most influential figures in the Ottonian reich along with their husbands, who relied heavily on their support. Phyllis G. Jestice examines an array of...
With an Introduction by Dan Jones — Appolo, 2019. — 740 p. Known as the "stupor mundi" – the wonder of the world – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick the Second led one of those extraordinary lives that was full of unimaginable drama and achievement. Born in 1194, Frederick was the son of emperor Henry II and Constance, Queen of Sicily, who, at the age of forty, allegedly gave birth to...
Keightley Thomas. Secret Societes of the Middle Ages.The Assassins, the Templars, and the Secret Tribunals of Westphalia. Red Wheel / Weiser, LLC. 2005.—721 p.
Originally published in 1846 year in London.
Ozymandias Press, 2016. — 146 p. The second Crusade was ended. Exploits as heroic as those in the first Crusade, under Godfrey of Bouillon, had been performed, but no battles as glorious as those in the first had been fought. It was a difficult task to wrest Palestine from the domination of the Turks. Scarcely the tenth part of the stout champions who set out from the various...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 509 p. This edited collection demonstrates how economic history can be analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, connecting statistical research with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of history. With their focus on the time between the end of the commercial revolution and the Black Death (c. 1300), and the Thirty Years’...
C.H.Beck, 2011. — 128 S. — ISBN: 3406535976. Im Jahre 1024 wurde Konrad II. als erster Salier zum König gekrönt. Mit ihm begann das erste deutsche Königshaus. Drei weitere Salier — Heinrich III., Heinrich IV. und Heinrich V. — sollten ihm auf den Thron folgen. Ihre Zeit, das «Jahrhundert der Salier» (1024–1125), war gekennzeichnet von schweren Auseinandersetzungen der Herrscher...
Truman State University, 2016. — 344 p. In February 1534, a radical group of Anabaptists, gripped with apocalyptic fervor, seized the city of Münster and established an idealistic communal government that quickly deteriorated into extreme inequality and theocratic totalitarianism. In response, troops hired by the city's prince-bishop laid siege to the city. Fifteen months later...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. — 462 S. — (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 130). For the first time, the book examines the emergence of the Habsburgs as a leading ruling dynasty under Maximilian I from the perspective of its most important diplomats. It analyzes their influence on European power politics, while also describing their career paths and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 304 p. In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers' stone—and would serve a...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 177 p. Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men for whom they provided a sexual outlet. Prostitution and Subjectivity...
Basic Books, 2015. — 273 p. In 1521, the Catholic Church declared war on Martin Luther. The German monk had already been excommunicated the year before, after nailing his Ninety-Five Theseswhich accused the Church of rampant corruptionto the door of a Saxon church. Now, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V called for Luther to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic.”...
Basic Books, 2025. — 544 p. In this “extraordinary and brilliant book” (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves ), a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with...
Routledge, 2021. — 218 p. This book, first published in 1979, presents a series of important investigations into the German Peasant War of 1525 – the last great peasant revolt and the first modern revolution. Previously under-studied by English-speaking historians, these essays provide a valuable analysis of the aims and extent of the Peasant War, and are representative of the...
Routledge, 2016. — 336 p. Katherine of Alexandria was a major object of devotion within medieval Europe, ranking second only to the Virgin Mary in the canon of female saints. Yet despite her undoubted importance, relatively little is known about the significance and function of her cult within the German-speaking territories that stood at the heart of Europe. Anne Simon's study...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 384 p. The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century. The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with-and even to benefit from-the parallel circulation of many different types...
University of Michigan Press, 2019. — 245 p. Laura E. Wangerin challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire’s rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal and imperial diplomas, manuscript illuminations, and histories, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as...
Велесова слобода. — 2013. — 187 с. Более восьмисот лет в разных формах длилась грандиозная эпопея немецкого руководства европейским континентом. Ее формальное завершение относится к 1806г., когда Наполеон Бонапарт разрушил традиционную схему европейского равновесия, положив начало новой истории континента. Наступила эпоха единообразного всесмешения, открывшего широкие...
СПб.: Евразия, 2008. — 478 с. — (Clio). — ISBN: 978-5-8071-310-9. История Священной Римской империи представляет собой одну из наиболее содержательных страниц общеевропейской истории — не только благодаря беспрецедентным размерам и «жизненному пути» государства, которое охватывало Центральную Европу и прилегающие к ней области более девяти столетий, но и благодаря неизменной...
Москва: Ломоносовъ, 2015. — 80 с. — (История. География. Этнография). — ISBN: 978-5-91678-119-9. Родственные племена, говорившие на германских языках, к началу нашей эры занимали обширную территорию между Рейном и Вислой, Дунаем и северными морями. Постепенно набирая силу, они в конце концов послужили основой для формирования многих европейских наций. В настоящее издание вошли...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 212 с. В книге рассказывается о важнейших этапах истории «Священной Римской империи» от её возникновения до фактического крушения в середине XIII в. Автор развенчивает мифы, созданные буржуазной немецкой историографией вокруг этого государства, показывает истинную суть его экспансионистской политики, пагубно повлиявшей на внутриполитическое развитие страны,...
СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2002. — 382 с. — ISBN: 5-93762-014-3. Предлагаемая книга впервые в отечественной историографии подробно освещает историю Германии на одном из самых драматичных отрезков её истории: от Аугсбургского религиозного мира до конца Тридцатилетней войны. Главный акцент в работе поставлен на анализе сословного общества. В центре внимания не столько...
СПб.: Евразия, 2009. — 432 с. Эта книга посвящена истории Священной Римской империи – сверхдержавы эпохи Средневековья, в одиночку вершившей судьбы Европы, предтечи империй нового и новейшего времени. Уникальный феномен для своего времени – огромное государство, основанное в X веке германским королем Оттоном I Великим, включало в себя Германию, Италию и Бургундию и притязало на...
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