The shaping of German identity : authority and crisis, 1245-1414
"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 i...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press,
2012
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schlagworte: | National characteristics, German Nationalism Political culture Monarchy Crises Deutschland Nationalbewusstsein Geschichte 1245-1414 |
| Umfang: | XVI, 619 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.