Len Scales (University of Durham)

The Shaping of German Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

German identity, a key force in history, took shape during the late Middle Ages. This book explains how and why.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 892g
• ISBN-13: 9781107460348
• ISBN-10: 1107460344
• Artikelnr.: 42582668

Autorenporträt

Len Scales is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Durham University. He has published widely both on late medieval German history and on the history of peoples and nations in medieval Europe. He is the editor (with Oliver Zimmer) of Power and the Nation in European History (Cambridge, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: German questions
1. Modern history: inventing the medieval German nation
2. Ruled out: monarchy, government and 'state' in Germany
3. Realm of imagination: communicating power after the Hohenstaufen
4. Shades of a kingdom: in search of a German political community
5. The matter of Rome: universalising political identities
6. Roman empire, German nation: the German imperial tradition
7. Trojans, Giants and other Germans: peoplehoods forgotten, remembered and relocated
8. Rome's Barbarians: accounting for the Germans
9. East: applying identities
10. Being German (I): place and name
11. Being German (II): language and locality
Conclusion: endings and beginnings
Bibliography.