TY - BOOK ID - 2417976 TI - Princes and territories in Medieval Germany PY - 2003 SN - 0521390850 0521521483 051109776X 0511583672 9780521521482 9780511583674 9780521390859 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Constitutional history, Medieval. KW - Nobility KW - Histoire constitutionnelle médiévale KW - Noblesse KW - Germany KW - Allemagne KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Constitutional history, Medieval KW - -Noble class KW - Noble families KW - Nobles (Social class) KW - Peerage KW - Upper class KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Titles of honor and nobility KW - History KW - -Germany KW - -Constitutional history, Medieval. KW - -History KW - -Constitutional history, Medieval KW - Histoire constitutionnelle médiévale KW - Noble class KW - To 1517 KW - Germany - Politics and government - To 1517. KW - Nobility - Germany. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Acqui 2006 KW - ALLEMAGNE KW - POLITIQUE ET GOUVERNEMENT KW - SAINT EMPIRE ROMAIN GERMANIQUE KW - HISTOIRE KW - MOYEN AGE KW - MOYEN AGEALLEMAGNE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2417976 AB - This book addresses the most important question in pre-modern German political history: why did a multiplicity of states and territories emerge by the end of the Middle Ages instead of an incipient 'nation state' under the crown? The answer is found not in the supposed failures of German kingship, but instead in the creative aristocratic successes of the secular dynasties and princes of the Church. We see how their collective efforts in the centuries after 1050 added up to a more markedly territorial structure of regional power, already emerging by the thirteenth century as a result of their endeavours in the economy, internal and external colonization, and the establishment of new castles, towns, monasteries and communications; in local, ecclesiastical and imperial law, and the jurisdictional reform which they imposed in their regions; and in the uses of dynastic politics, including feuds as well as alliances, inheritance and partition. ER -