Germany in the High Middle Ages, c. 1050-1200 / Horst Fuhrmann ; translated by Timothy Reuter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuhrmann, Horst.

Series:

Cambridge medieval textbooks

Cambridge medieval textbooks.

Standardized Title:

Deutsche Geschichte im hohen Mittelalter. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Germany--History--843-1273.

Germany.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 209 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Contents:

1 German History in the High Middle Ages

Concepts, Explanations, Facts 1

The three 'essentials' of history

space, time, and man 1

1 The medieval view of space, time, and man 2

2 Space, time, man: facts and findings 6

Germany in the Europe of the high Middle Ages 16

1 Middle Ages and 'high Middle Ages'

Europe and the 'West' 16

2 Germany, the Germans and their neighbours 19

3 The economy of the Empire 23

4 The period from 1050 to 1200 as a turning-point in European and German history 27

2 'Progress and Promise': The German Empire in the Mid Eleventh Century 31

Social stratification and the structure of government in the Ottonian and Salian period 31

Rex et sacerdos

the priestly kingship of Henry III (1039-56) 38

Strengths and weaknesses of Salian kingship 40

Henry III as Roman patricius and the German popes 43

The beginnings and aims of church reform 46

The distance from the rest of Europe: France, England, and the North 49

3 From Christus Domini to Antichrist: The King of Germany and the Investiture Contest 51

The reign of Henry IV and its consequences 52

1 The papacy and the regency government 52

2 Canossa: the turning-point 58

3 The Libelli de lite and the beginnings of scholastic thought 69

4 The expansion of the West and the First Crusade 73

5 The town as an institution and a way of life 77

The rise of the secular state and the priestly church 81

1 The Investiture Contest in France and England 81

2 The beginnings of Henry V's reign 84

3 The road to the Concordat of Worms (1122) 87

4 Political Reorientation and Emergent Diversity: From Salian Imperial Church System to Staufer Kingship 96

The results of the Investiture Contest 97

1 The kingdom of Germany 97

2 The rest of Europe 102

'The love of learning and the desire for God': church and spirituality in the age of Bernard of Clairvaux 109

Lother III: kingship without a future 116

1 Lothar as a 'legal antiking' 117

2 Lother III and the position on the eastern frontier 122

Conrad III: kingship without imperial glory 125

1 Conrad's election and the Welf opposition 125

2 European alliances and the Second Crusade 128

5 The Centre-Point of the German Middle Ages: Frederick Barbarossa and His Age 135

The election of Frederick I and the new policy of balance 137

Frederick and the Empire before the Alexandrine schism 142

1 The revival of imperial rule in imperial Italy and the breach with the Curia 142

2 Frederick's German policy 149

3 The Staufer idea of empire 153

Empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy 157

1 Papal schism and diplomacy to the death of Alexander III (1181) 157

2 Staufer government in Germany 162

New forms of government 167

1 The fall of Henry the Lion and the so-called 'new estate of imperial princes' 168

2 Kingship and feudalism in France and England 171

3 International alliances and the Third Crusade 173

4 The chivalric ethos of the Staufer period 177

Henry VI and the shift in the Empire's centre of gravity 180

1 The German kingdom and the Sicilian inheritance 180

2 Plans and beginnings 183.

Notes:

Translation of: Deutsche Geschichte im hohen Mittelalter.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [187]-195.

ISBN:

0521266386

0521319803

OCLC:

12970533