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The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local principalities. These became the dominant governmental institutions of the late medieval Reich, whose nominal monarchs needed to work with the princes if they were to possess any effective authority. Previous scholarship in English has tended to look at medieval Germany primarily in terms of the struggles and eventual decline of monarchical authority during the Salian and Staufen eras – in other words, at the "failure" of a centralised monarchy. Today...
This book studies the evolution of medical theory and education in Germany between 1750 and 1820.
A powerful analysis of regional power, filling a major gap in English language writing on medieval Germany.
"A scholarly but eminently readable tracing of the sources and recurring themes of anti-Semitism."--
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