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The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300: Translation and Commentary

Autor David S. Bachrach
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 aug 2014
Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of modern Europe. Until recently, almost all of the sources for medieval Germany were available only in the original Latin or in German translations, while most scholarly investigation has been in German. The limited English-language scholarship has focused on royal politics and the aristocracy. Even today, English-speaking students will find very little about the lower social orders, or Germany’s urban centers that came to play an increasingly important role in the social, economic, political, religious, and military life of the German kingdom after the turn of the millennium. The translation of the four texts in this volume is intended to help fill these lacunae. They focus on the city of Worms in the period c.1000 to c.1300. From them readers can follow developments in this city over a period of almost three centuries from the perspective of writers who lived there, gaining insights about the lives of both rich and poor, Christian and Jew. No other city in Germany provides a similar opportunity for comparison of changes over time. As important, Worms was an ’early adopter’ of new political, economic, institutional, and military traditions, which would later become normative for cities throughout the German kingdom. Worms was one of the first cities to develop as a center of episcopal power; it was also one of the first to develop an independent urban government, and was precocious in emerging as a de facto city-state in the mid-thirteenth century. These political developments, with their concomitant social, economic, and military consequences, would define urban life throughout the German kingdom. In sum, the history of Worms as told in the narrative sources in this volume can be understood as illuminating the broader urban history of the German kingdom at the heigh
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472436412
ISBN-10: 1472436415
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

David Bachrach, associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, USA, focuses his research on the military, administrative, and economic history of medieval Germany and medieval England. His publications include Religion and the Conduct of War c. 300-c.1215, Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany, and Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, c. 1000: On the Variety of Our Times by Alpert of Metz; he is also co-translator of The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen.

Cuprins

Preface; Maps; Genealogies; Introduction; Vita Burchardi; Vita Sancti Eckenberti; Chronicon Wormatiense; Annales Wormatienses; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

’...this volume would make a very useful addition to any university library where medieval history is taught. Overall, in producing such as an accessible and engaging edition of sources Bachrach has done a great service to the study of urban history in the high medieval period, as well as to the history of medieval Germany in general.’ Urban History

Descriere

The history of medieval Germany, particularly that of the lower social orders, has thus far remained largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of modern Europe. The translation of the four texts in this volume, which focus on the city of Worms in the period c.1000 to c.1300, is intended to help fill these lacunae. The history of Worms, as told in these sources, can be understood as illuminating the broader urban, ecclesiastical and political history of the German kingdom at the height of its power.