German Imperial Knights

Author : Richard J. Ninness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000285024

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German Imperial Knights by Richard J. Ninness Pdf

The German imperial knights were branded disobedient, criminal, or treasonous, but instead of finding themselves on the wrong side of history, they resisted marginalization and adapted through a combination of conservative and progressive strategies. The knights tried to turn the elite world on its head through their constant challenges to the princes in the realms of both culture and governance. They held their own chivalric tournaments from 1479-1487, and defied the emperor and powerful princes in refusing to obey laws that violated custom. But their resistance led to a series of disasters in the 1520s: their leaders were hunted down and their castles destroyed. Having failed on their own, they turned to Emperor Charles V in the 1540s and the imperial knighthood was formed. This new status stabilized their position and provided them with important rights, including the choice between Lutheranism and Catholicism. During the Reformation era (1517-1648), no other German group embraced diversity in religion like the imperial knights. Despite the popularity of Protestantism in the group, they stood up to their princely adversaries, now Protestant, becoming champions of the Catholic Church and proved themselves just as staunch defenders of the Church as the Habsburg and Wittelsbach dynasties.

Author : William D. Godsey, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139456098

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Nobles and Nation in Central Europe by William D. Godsey, Jr Pdf

This is a study of Central European nobles in revolution. As one of Germany's richest, most insular and most autonomous nobilities, the Free Knights in Electoral Mainz represented the early modern noble ideal of pure bloodlines and cosmopolitan loyalties in the old society of orders. But this world came to an end with the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in 1792. Quite apart from the social, economic and political dislocations and loss, the era from 1789 to 1815 also meant a cultural reorientation for the nobility. William D. Godsey, Jr here explores how nobles in post-revolutionary Germany gradually abandoned their old self-understanding and assimilated with the new cultural 'nation' while aristocrats in the Habsburg Empire, which had taken in many emigres from Mainz, moved instead towards supranationalism. This is a major contribution to debates about the relationship between identity, cultural nationalism, supranationalism and religion in Germany and the Habsburg Empire.

Author : Benjamin Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009034607

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German Knighthood, 1050-1300 by Benjamin Arnold Pdf

This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday. Arnold draws on a rich array of descriptive detail from the lives of individual knights, their families, and various groups to examine knightly customs and practices, the impact of knighthood in the political world of the German Empire, and the curious status of most knights as at once noble and unfree. These unfree knights, argues Arnold, were above all professional warriors in an empire where violence for political ends prevailed--a harsh reality that dictated the structure and development of their class.

Author : Hajo Holborn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691007950

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A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation by Hajo Holborn Pdf

... A three-volume reassessment of the last five centuries of German history ...

Author : Rudolf Vierhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521339367

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Germany in the Age of Absolutism by Rudolf Vierhaus Pdf

Reconstructs the structures that marked the history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War.

Author : Catherine LaRoche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476710136

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Knight of Love by Catherine LaRoche Pdf

In this saucy romance, an English lady turns the damsel-in-distress tale on its head as she escapes her malicious fiancé and fights for both her life and that of the lustful rebel that has become her protector. Lady Lenora Trevelyan, a naïve yet stubborn young lady born to the highest noble houses of England and Germany, finds herself betrothed to the brutal Prince Kurt von Rotenburg-Gruselstadt. But after she is cruelly bruised and flogged by her fiancé, she decides to take the reins of her fate. In the midst of a German revolution, Lenora escapes Kurt’s iron fist and embarks home to England. She quickly finds herself in the hands of a rebel group and their robust, gentle, and handsome leader, Wolfram von Wolfsbach und Ravensworth, the English Earl of Ravensworth. Lenora struggles to deny the passion she feels towards the frustratingly chivalrous Earl but her desire for him continues to bloom. Wolfram hungers nothing other than to fight for democracy and civil rights in uniting Germany and to protect what he assumes is his damsel in distress. Through nights of immeasurable pleasure, Lenora and Wolfram learn that their passion is no match for the revolutionary chaos that ensues. And when Lenora discovers that her protector’s life is threatened, she must risk everything to save her Knight of Love.

Author : William Robertson Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015026980329

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The Background of the Knights' Revolt, 1522-1523 by William Robertson Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Terry C. Treadwell,Alan C. Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 0760707901

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German Knights of the Air, 1914-1918 by Terry C. Treadwell,Alan C. Wood Pdf

Author : Joseph A. Biesinger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9780816074716

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Germany by Joseph A. Biesinger Pdf

A wealth of information is presented in this guide in a variety of formats, including a concise narrative history, a chronology and A to Z entries, to provide readers with a greater understanding of German history, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0812214277

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Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806 by Michael Hughes Pdf

Attempts to present a coherent account of early modern German history are often hampered by the German equivalent of the Whig theory of history, by which all useful roads lead up to the creation of the nineteenth-century power state (Machstaat) or institutional state (Anstalstaat). In this kind of historiography, there are large "blank" areas between the "important" events like the Reformation, the Thiry Years War, the Seven Years War, and the French Revolution. During the intervals of apparent stagnation between these events, "Germany" seems to disappear, to be replaced by states such as Prussian and Austria, Saxony, Bavaria, and the Palatinate. Substantial areas are ignored, and groups such as the parliamentary Estates, which stood in the way of state-building, are virtually written out of most accounts. Rather than focusing on the separate histories of the individual German states, Michael Hughes looks to the structure of the Holy Roman Empire in its final centuries and writes an account of Germany as a functioning, federative state, with institutions capable of reform and modernization. For nineteenth-and twentieth-century historians, the Empire was seen as the embodiment of division and weakness. But by examining the first Reich, Hughes reveals the persistence of the idea of Germanness and German national feeling during a period when, according to most accounts, Germany had virtually ceased to exist. At the same time, he examines "the element of continuity in Germany's development . . . in an attempt to discover how far back in Germany's past it is necessary to go to find the roots of the 'German problem,' the Germans' search for a political expression of their strongly developed awareness of cultural unity."

Author : Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400890262

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The Holy Roman Empire by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Pdf

A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believe The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor. Around 1500, it took on a more formal structure with the establishment of powerful institutions—such as the Reichstag and Imperial Chamber Court—that would endure more or less intact until the empire's dissolution by Napoleon in 1806. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides a concise history of the Holy Roman Empire, presenting an entirely new interpretation of the empire's political culture and remarkably durable institutions. Rather than comparing the empire to modern states or associations like the European Union, Stollberg-Rilinger shows how it was a political body unlike any other—it had no standing army, no clear boundaries, no general taxation or bureaucracy. She describes a heterogeneous association based on tradition and shared purpose, bound together by personal loyalty and reciprocity, and constantly reenacted by solemn rituals. In a narrative spanning three turbulent centuries, she takes readers from the reform era at the dawn of the sixteenth century to the crisis of the Reformation, from the consolidation of the Peace of Augsburg to the destructive fury of the Thirty Years' War, from the conflict between Austria and Prussia to the empire's downfall in the age of the French Revolution. Authoritative and accessible, The Holy Roman Empire is an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of Europe.

Author : James Estes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047415657

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Peace, Order and the Glory of God by James Estes Pdf

This volume is a comparative study of the development of the thought of Luther and Melanchthon on the role of secular magistrates in the church that, in contrast to most earlier studies, sees essential agreement between them despite differences of argumentation.

Author : Heinrich Von Treitschke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134582280

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Treitschke's Origins of Prussianism (Routledge Revivals) by Heinrich Von Treitschke Pdf

Heinrich Von Treitschke (1834-1896) was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century. An ardent admirer of Prussianism, Treitschke was also deeply anti-Semitic and anti-socialist. This translation by Eden and Cedar Paul of The Origins of Prussianism, published in 1942 and reissued in 1969, made Treitschke’s 1862 classic essay available in English for the first time. It is a fascinating account of the thirteenth-century colonization of Old Prussia by the Teutonic Knights and the unification of Germany, which highlights his most prominent beliefs in the value of the State and the superiority of the German race. Treitschke’s essay will fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of Old Prussia and nineteenth-century German politics and academic thought.

Author : Joachim Whaley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199693078

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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire by Joachim Whaley Pdf

In the first single-author account of German history from the Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's study written in the 1950s, Dr Whaley provides a full account of the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Volume II extends from the Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich.

Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472833426

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Armies of the Medieval Italian Wars 1125–1325 by Gabriele Esposito Pdf

The great powers of medieval Europe fought continuously in the Italian peninsula between the 12th and 14th centuries as they sought to expand their territory. Invading armies from Germany – the Holy Roman Empire – saw the creation of the defensive Lombard League of northern Italian city-states. These struggles resulted in conflicts between rival confederacies, which in turn proved to be the catalysts for developments in organisation and tactics. Italian urban militias became better organised and equipped, the Imperial armies went from being mostly German to multi-national forces, and both sides became reliant on mercenary forces to prosecute their wars. After the 1260s, France, relying mainly on armoured cavalry, and Spain, with their innovative light infantry, vied for control of southern Italy. On the seas, the great naval powers of Genoa, Pisa and Venice became fierce rivals, as they created great trading empires, bringing the treasures of the east into feudal Europe. Using detailed colour plates, this beautifully illustrated book describes the myriad of armies and navies that fought for control of Italy in the Middle Ages.