The shaping of German identity : authority and crisis, 1245-1414
- Title
- The shaping of German identity : authority and crisis, 1245-1414 / Len Scales.
- Published by
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xvi, 619 p. : maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that there existed a single German people, with its own lands, language and character, became increasingly widespread, as was expressed in written works of the period. This book - the first on its subject in any language - poses a challenge to some dominant assumptions of current historical scholarship: that early European nation-making inevitably took place within the developing structures of the institutional state; and that, in the absence of such structural growth, the idea of a German nation was uniquely, radically and fatally retarded. In recounting the formation of German identity in the late Middle Ages, this book offers an important new perspective both on German history and on European nation-making"--
- Subject
- Holy Roman Empire > Relations > Germany
- Monarchy > Germany > History > To 1500
- Political culture > Germany > History > To 1500
- Nationalism > Germany > History > To 1500
- Germany > History > 1273-1517
- Crises > Germany > History > To 1500
- National characteristics, German > History > To 1500
- Germany > Politics and government > 1273-1517
- Germany > Relations > Holy Roman Empire
- Contents
- Introduction: German questions -- Modern history : inventing the medieval German nation -- Ruled out : monarchy, government and 'state' in Germany -- Realm of imagination : communicating power after the Hohenstaufen -- Shades of a kingdom : in search of a German political community -- The matter of Rome : universalising political identities -- Roman empire, German nation : the German imperial tradition -- Trojans, Giants and other Germans : peoplehoods forgotten, remembered and relocated -- Rome's Barbarians : accounting for the Germans -- East : applying identities -- Being German (I) : place and name -- Being German (II) : language and locality -- Conclusion: Endings and beginnings.
- Call number
- JFE 12-4978
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Scales, Len, 1961-
- Title
- The shaping of German identity : authority and crisis, 1245-1414 / Len Scales.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- LCCN
- 2012000309
- ISBN
- 9780521573337 (hardback)
- 0521573335 (hardback)
- Research call number
- JFE 12-4978