The shaping of German identity : authority and crisis, 1245-1414

Publication Data

• Title The shaping of German identity : authority and crisis, 1245-1414
• Author Len Scales
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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
• Germany :: Politics and government :: 1273-1517
• Germany :: History :: 1273-1517
• Germany :: Relations :: Holy Roman Empire
• Holy Roman Empire :: Relations :: Germany
• Germany
• Holy Roman Empire

The shaping of German identity : authority and crisis, 1245-1414 by Len Scales. ISBN 9780521573337. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.