Germany in the High Middle Ages, c. 1050-1200

By: Horst Fuhrmann, Timothy Reuter (Translator)

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Paperback | 8 December 1986

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Germany in the High Middle Ages opens with a wide-ranging and yet detailed description of the conditions under which men lived and their attitudes of mind during the period 1050-1200: against this background it proceeds to analyse the fundamental political, social, economic and cultural changes of the period in central Europe. Professor Fuhrmann considers the social transformation brought about by the emergence of new classes such as ministeriales and burghers, and examines the intellectual renewal reflected in the rise of scholasticism and the foundation of the universities. He also describes the gradual erosion of the power of the German rulers, which led to the Empire losing its position as the leading power in Europe, and yet was accompanied, by a last flowering under the Staufen emperors amid the chivalric culture with which they were closely associated. Throughout the book these changes are contrasted with contemporary developments elsewhere in Europe, especially in France, England and Italy.

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'Horst Fuhrmann gives us 150 stormy years in 180 pages. his narrative is economical and lucid, though he opens with a relatively leisurely chapter on space, time and man in the Middle Ages. This masterly survey of 'medical anthropology', with its evocation of the harsh environment and alien thought-world of the period, is followed by a deft sketch of the transformation of Western Europe into something recognizably 'modern' by the year 1200.' The Times Literary Supplement 'This concise, vigorous, well-translated delineation of a short span, only a century and a half, of germany's medieval experience has the great merit of setting the events within the European context. The author succeeds in showing that Germany was not behind hand in the economic, cultural and religious advances usually attributed to french and italian society as pioneers in that age ... The book is published in hardcover and paperback, and will establish itself, by its great verve and readability, as the standard short sccount in English for some years.' History

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German History in the High Middle Ages--Concepts, Explanations, Facts	p. 1
The three 'essentials' of history--space, time, and man	p. 1
The medieval view of space, time, and man	p. 2
Space, time, man: facts and findings	p. 6
Germany in the Europe of the high Middle Ages	p. 16
Middle Ages and 'high Middle Ages'--Europe and the 'West'	p. 16
Germany, the Germans and their neighbours	p. 19
The economy of the Empire	p. 23
The period from 1050 to 1200 as a turning-point in European and German history	p. 27
'Progress and Promise': The German Empire in the Mid Eleventh Century	p. 31
Social stratification and the structure of government in the Ottonian and Salian period	p. 31
Rex et sacerdos--the priestly kingship of Henry III (1039-56)	p. 38
Strengths and weaknesses of Salian kingship	p. 40
Henry III as Roman patricius and the German popes	p. 43
The beginnings and aims of church reform	p. 46
The distance from the rest of Europe: France, England, and the North	p. 49
From Christus Domini to Antichrist: The King of Germany and the Investiture Contest	p. 51
The reign of Henry IV and its consequences	p. 52
The papacy and the regency government	p. 52
Canossa: the turning-point	p. 58
The Libelli de lite and the beginnings of scholastic thought	p. 69
The expansion of the West and the First Crusade	p. 73
The town as an institution and a way of life	p. 77
The rise of the secular state and the priestly church	p. 81
The Investiture Contest in France and England	p. 81
The beginnings of Henry V's reign	p. 84
The road to the Concordat of Worms (1122)	p. 87
Political Reorientation and Emergent Diversity: From Salian Imperial Church System to Staufer Kingship	p. 96
The results of the Investiture Contest	p. 97
The kingdom of Germany	p. 97
The rest of Europe	p. 102
'The love of learning and the desire for God': church and spirituality in the age of Bernard of Clairvaux	p. 109
Lother III: kingship without a future	p. 116
Lothar as a 'legal antiking'	p. 117
Lother III and the position on the eastern frontier	p. 122
Conrad III: kingship without imperial glory	p. 125
Conrad's election and the Welf opposition	p. 125
European alliances and the Second Crusade	p. 128
The Centre-Point of the German Middle Ages: Frederick Barbarossa and His Age	p. 135
The election of Frederick I and the new policy of balance	p. 137
Frederick and the Empire before the Alexandrine schism	p. 142
The revival of imperial rule in imperial Italy and the breach with the Curia	p. 142
Frederick's German policy	p. 149
The Staufer idea of empire	p. 153
Empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy	p. 157
Papal schism and diplomacy to the death of Alexander III (1181)	p. 157
Staufer government in Germany	p. 162
New forms of government	p. 167
The fall of Henry the Lion and the so-called 'new estate of imperial princes'	p. 168
Kingship and feudalism in France and England	p. 171
International alliances and the Third Crusade	p. 173
The chivalric ethos of the Staufer period	p. 177
Henry VI and the shift in the Empire's centre of gravity	p. 180
The German kingdom and the Sicilian inheritance	p. 180
Plans and beginnings	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 196
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