State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany
Title | State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Hillay Zmora |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2003-11-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521522656 |
A new and revisionary account of how the nobility grew and developed in late medieval and early modern Germany.
The Feud in Early Modern Germany
Title | The Feud in Early Modern Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Hillay Zmora |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2011-07-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521112516 |
This groundbreaking book explains the widely accepted practice of feuding amongst noblemen and princes in its social context.
Monarchy, Aristocracy and State in Europe 1300-1800
Title | Monarchy, Aristocracy and State in Europe 1300-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Hillay Zmora |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2002-01-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134747993 |
Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300 - 1800 is an important survey of the relationship between monarchy and state in early modern European history. Spanning five centuries and covering England, France, Spain, Germany and Austria, this book considers the key themes in the formation of the modern state in Europe. The relationship of the nobility with the state is the key to understanding the development of modern government in Europe. In order to understand the way modern states were formed, this book focusses on the implications of the incessant and costly wars which European governments waged against each other, which indeed propelled the modern state into being. Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300-1800 takes a fascinating thematic approach, providing a useful survey of the position and role of the nobility in the government of states in early modern Europe.
The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany
Title | The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany PDF eBook |
Author | B. Tlusty |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2011-03-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230305512 |
For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was confirmed with blades and guns.
The Germans and the East
Title | The Germans and the East PDF eBook |
Author | Charles W. Ingrao |
Publisher | Purdue University Press |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781557534439 |
The editors present a collection of 23 historical papers exploring relationships between "the Germans" (necessarily adopting different senses of the term for different periods or different topics) and their immediate neighbors to the East. The eras discussed range from the Middle Ages to European integration. Examples of specific topics addressed include the Teutonic order in the development of the political culture of Northeastern Europe during the Middle ages, Teutonic-Balt relations in the chronicles of the Baltic Crusades, the emergence of Polenliteratur in 18th century Germany, German colonization in the Banat and Transylvania in the 18th century, changing meanings of "German" in Habsburg Central Europe, German military occupation and culture on the Eastern Front in Word War I, interwar Poland and the problem of Polish-speaking Germans, the implementation of Nazi racial policy in occupied Poland, Austro-Czechoslovak relations and the post-war expulsion of the Germans, and narratives of the lost German East in Cold War West Germany.
Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany
Title | Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany PDF eBook |
Author | H. C. Erik Midelfort |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813915012 |
With an acute ear for the nuances of sixteenth-century diagnosis, H.C. Erik Midelfort details the expansion of a learned medical vocabulary with which contemporaries could describe these demented monarchs, as we watch the rise to prominence of the "melancholy prince." He also documents the transition from the brutal deposition of mad princes during the late Middle Ages to the imposition of medical therapy by the middle of the sixteenth century, taking note of the competing claims of medicine and theology. Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany takes a new look at the issues raised in Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization and provides an alternative framework of interpretation.
Fatherlands
Title | Fatherlands PDF eBook |
Author | Abigail Green |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2001-09-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521793131 |
An exploration of the nature of identity in nineteenth-century Germany.