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1 online resource (638 pages) |
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Cover; The Shaping of German Identity; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: German questions; Long journey; Concepts, terms, names; 1: Modern history: inventing the medieval German nation; Wilhelmine Gothic; Sonderweg; The medieval nation: roots and routes; Reframing the nation: the late Middle Ages; 2: Ruled out: monarchy, government and 'state' in Germany; At the tomb of Archbishop Siegfried; Monarchy, government and nation: a European paradigm; State of dissolution: monarchy and government in Germany. |
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3: Realm of imagination: communicating power after the HohenstaufenCommunicating Landscapes; Monarchy in mind; Communicating power; 4: Shades of a kingdom: in search of a German political community; At the Cologne Gate; The kingdom in the east; German government, German society; 5: The matter of Rome: universalising political identities; A lesson from Viterbo; Imperium; The persistence of imperialism; Imperial crisis, imperial public; The Empire in debate; 6: Roman Empire, German nation: the German imperial tradition; A German world order; The matter of Germany. |
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Imperial princes, German princesTranslatio imperii; Election and identity; 7: Trojans, giants and other Germans: peoplehoods forgotten, remembered and relocated; Wild men; Amnesia; Origines gentium; The great Charles; The course of German history; 8: Rome's barbarians: accounting for the Germans; Thinking with monsters; Men destined for war; 9: East: applying identities; Under the Virgin's mantle; Germans and the eastern Other; Swords and ploughshares: Germans in the east; Unsettled identities; Ethnic groups and boundaries; Wider horizons: Teutonic Order and Hansa. |
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10: Being German (I): place and nameIdentifying landscapes; On German soil; Naming land and people; 11: Being German (II): language and locality; Kulturnation; Language and people; Homelands; Conclusion: endings and beginnings; Becoming visible; Departures; Sources and bibliography; UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES; PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY WORKS; Index. |
| Summary |
German identity, a key force in history, took shape during the late Middle Ages. This book explains how and why. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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National characteristics, German -- History -- To 1500.
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National characteristics, German. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Nationalism -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.
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Nationalism. |
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Germany. |
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Political culture -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.
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Political culture. |
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Monarchy -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.
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Monarchy. |
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Crises -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.
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Crises. |
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1273-1517.
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Politics and government. |
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1273-1517 |
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Germany -- History -- 1273-1517.
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Germany -- Relations -- Holy Roman Empire.
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Relations. |
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Holy Roman Empire -- Relations -- Germany.
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To 1517 |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scales, Len. Shaping of German Identity : Authority and Crisis, 1245-1414. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9780521573337 |
| ISBN |
9781139376518 |
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1139376519 |
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9781139379373 (electronic book) |
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1139379372 (electronic book) |
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9780511980169 (electronic book) |
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0511980167 (electronic book) |
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1139375083 |
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9781139375085 |
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9780521573337 |
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0521573335 |
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9781139375085 |
| Standard No. |
9786613633316 |
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