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Author Arnold, Benjamin

Title Count and Bishop in Medieval Germany : a Study of Regional Power, 1100-1350 / Benjamin Arnold
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1991

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Description 1 online resource : 10 illustrations
Series The Middle Ages Series
Contents Frontmatter -- Content -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Land and Lordship in the Medieval German Empire -- 1. Regions and Political Power in Medieval Germany -- 2. The See of Eichstätt and Its Neighbors -- 3. Counts, Bishops, and Knights, 1125 -- 1245 -- 4. The Bishopric and Its Neighbors after the Treaty of Eichstätt in 1245 -- 5. The End of the County of Hirschberg, 1280-1305 -- 6. Eichstätt and the Hirschberg Inheritance -- 7. Bishop and Count in the West of Eichstätts Region -- Conclusion: Eichstätt in Bavarian and German History -- Maps and Genealogical Tables -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary In this examination of the functions of lordship in a medieval society, Benjamin Arnold seeks answers to some of the most fundamental questions for the period of political and institutional history: How did the lords maintain control over the people, land, and resources? How was their rule sustained and justified? Arnold chooses to analyze the Eichstätt region, an area on the borders of three major German provinces: Bavaria, Franconia, and Swabia. The region was the geographical and political dimension within which succeeding bishops, with great tenacity and inventiveness, survived the threat of dominion by their secular neighbors, the counts. The bishops of Eichstätt were able to emerge with a durable territorial structure of their own, which they succeeded in recasting, between 1280 and 1320, into a credible and long-lasting principality. Modern ideas of political progress, Arnold contends, tend to be unfair to medieval institutions that have not left easily recognizable descendants. He argues that it would be more prudent to observe in the territorial fragmentation of Germany not the triumph of chaos but the outcome of a reasonably orderly social and legal process that provided alternative institutions to those of a centralized or national monarchy
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Constitutional history, Medieval.
Regionalism -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
Nobility -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Constitutional history, Medieval
Nobility
Politics and government
Regionalism
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- To 1517. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054614
Subject Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512800104
1512800104