Feudal Germany / by James Westfall Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, James Westfall, 1869-1941, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holy Roman Empire--History--843-1273.

Holy Roman Empire.

Germany--History--843-1273.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 710 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1928.

Contents:

V. 1: Old west feudal Germany

The Church in the Carolingian and Saxon governments

The German Church and the Salian monarchy; spread of the Cluny reform in Italy and Germany

The War of Investiture; the conflict between Henry IV and Gregory VII

Old Saxony

The rebellion of Saxony

Sectionalism and party strife in the War of Investiture

Political theories and constitutional progress during the War of Investiture (1075-1139)

Guelf and Ghibelline

German feudalism

The crown lands in feudal Germany

The sentiment of Europe toward the Germans in the Middle Ages

V. 2: New east frontier colonial Germany

The German Church and the conversion of the Slavs of the Elbe

The expansion and colonization of the German people beyond the Elbe; the conflict of Saxon and Slav

Early trade relations between the Germans and the Elbean and Baltic Slavs

Dutch and Flemish colonization in medieval Germany

German southeastern expansion and the formation of Austria

Medieval German expansion in Bohemia and Poland

Appendix

Table of Popes and Emperors, 800-1273

The Welf and Billunger families

The Welf and Hohenstaufen families

The Abodrite and Wagrian dukes

The Slavonic dukes of Wagria (later Mecklenburg)

Princes of Moravia, Bohemia, and Poland.

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