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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Duncan Hardy |
ISBN: | 9780198827252 0198827253 |
OCLC Number: | 1056142645 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2019 Gladstone Prize by the Royal Historical Society. |
Description: | 320 Seiten. |
Contents: | IntroductionPart I: part I. Shared and Interconnective Structures and Practices1: Documentary Culture and Ritual2: Arbitration and Para-judicial Mediation3: Feuding and Warfare4: Lordship and AdministrationPart II: Associations and Associative Political Culture5: Associations in Comparative Perspective: The Continuum of Alliances and Leagues6: The Functions of Alliances and Leagues: Assistance and Adjudication7: Associations and the Discourses of Peace, Common Weal, and Empire8: Beyond Alliances and Leagues: the Associative Character of Political Life in the EmpireAssociative Political Culture in Action: Four Case Studies9: The 'Town War', c. 1376-8910: Upper Germany in the Reign Of Sigismund of Luxemburg, C. 1410-3711: Burgundian Rule on the Upper Rhine and its Aftermath, C. 1468-7712: The Age of Imperial Reform, C. 1486-1521ConclusionBibliographyIndex |
Series Title: | Oxford historical monographs |
Responsibility: | Duncan Hardy. |
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This well-written, tightly argued monograph analyzes the political culture of the fragmented southwestern regions of the Holy Roman Empire between the medieval and early modern periods ... Hardy persuasively challenges traditional historiographic models that seek the origins of state development through territorialization in the late medieval German-speaking lands or that treat imperial estates as hierarchically distinct and territorially bounded ... Hardy'salternative model will be much cited and should inspire research in other imperial regions and beyond ... Highly recommended. * P. G. Wallace, CHOICE * The study is based not only on extensive work on sources in numerous archives in Alsace, south-western Germany, Switzerland, and Austria; it is also noteworthy for its exceptionally deep engagement with the current state of German scholarship, as reflected in the bibliography....Hardy's interpretative model, drawing on a profound knowledge of the sources and research, therefore offers the basis for the discussion of a different conception of the late medieval Empire.This altogether stimulating approach will lead to much productive debate. * Anja Thaller, German Historical Institute London Bulletin * ...this is an important book that deserves wide readership among medievalists and early modernists, and it would even be of interest more broadly to historians of political thought. * Aaron Vanides, Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz, Speculum * ...this is a book that should be on the reading list of any scholar working on late medieval and early modern Central Europe. * Stephan Sander-Faes, Universitat Zurich, Renaissance Quarterly * Read more...

