The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350: Essays by German Historians

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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