Three Political Tales From Medieval Germany

Author : Brian Murdoch
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1805433083

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Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany by Brian Murdoch Pdf

"Fresh, accurate, and accessible translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and are surprisingly relevant to the precariousness of present-day political systems. Recent political events around the world, not least January 6, 2021, have shown that political systems long thought to be resilient can be surprisingly at risk. This edition offers an introduction to and prose translations of three texts that demonstrate just how precarious things can be even in a rigidly structured society (here the medieval Holy Roman Empire). The texts, the anonymously authored Duke Ernst, Konrad of Würzburg's Henry of Kempten, and Heinrich's Reynard the Fox, are also literary works, designed to entertain. Two of them are adventure stories, but carry a message about the care needed to prevent the escalation of violence; the third is a bleak warning against unscrupulous advisors. As works of literature they are varied. The first moves from recognizable history to develop into an early fantasy novel, as the central character goes boldly to distant places outside the known world and meets, fights with, and learns from strange and alien creatures, before returning to the "real" world. The second, a novella, is ostensibly about chivalric bravery, but it is set in a pre-chivalric period, and shows how (then as now) a trivial incident can escalate towards disaster. The third is an animal fable, part of the extensive tradition of Reynard the Fox, initially familiar, but developing into a violent and dark tale that ends with the death of a king"--

Author : Brian Murdoch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640141858

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Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany by Brian Murdoch Pdf

"Fresh, accurate, and accessible translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and are surprisingly relevant to the precariousness of present-day political systems. Recent political events around the world, not least January 6, 2021, have shown that political systems long thought to be resilient can be surprisingly at risk. This edition offers an introduction to and prose translations of three texts that demonstrate just how precarious things can be even in a rigidly structured society (here the medieval Holy Roman Empire). The texts, the anonymously authored Duke Ernst, Konrad of Wèurzburg's Henry of Kempten, and Heinrich's Reynard the Fox, are also literary works, designed to entertain. Two of them are adventure stories, but carry a message about the care needed to prevent the escalation of violence; the third is a bleak warning against unscrupulous advisors. As works of literature they are varied. The first moves from recognizable history to develop into an early fantasy novel, as the central character goes boldly to distant places outside the known world and meets, fights with, and learns from strange and alien creatures, before returning to the "real" world. The second, a novella, is ostensibly about chivalric bravery, but it is set in a pre-chivalric period, and shows how (then as now) a trivial incident can escalate towards disaster. The third is an animal fable, part of the extensive tradition of Reynard the Fox, initially familiar, but developing into a violent and dark tale that ends with the death of a king"--

Author : Benjamin Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349256778

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Medieval Germany, 500–1300 by Benjamin Arnold Pdf

Medieval Germany, 500-1300 is an interpretation of the foundation of Germany based upon the three most outstanding characteristics of the medieval polity: its division into several distinct peoples with their own customs, dialects, and economic interests from whom the later 'Germans' would be drawn; the imperial ambitions to which the successive German dynasties aspired; and the structure of German kingship, which was a military, religious, and juridical exercise of authority rather than a meticulous administration based upon scribal institutions.

Author : Benjamin Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0802080537

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Medieval Germany, 500-1300 by Benjamin Arnold Pdf

"Medieval Germany 500-1300" is a Bold, Comprehensive political interpretation of the foundation of Germany based upon its three most outstanding characteristics: its division into several distinct peoples with their own customs, dialects, and economic interests; the imperial ambitions to which the successive ruling dynasties of Germany aspired; and the structure of German kingship, which was a military, religious, and juridicial exercise of authority rather than a meticulous administration based upon scribal institutions.

Author : Alpert (von Metz)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0888443021

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Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, Ca. 1000 by Alpert (von Metz) Pdf

Written in the early eleventh century, the De diversitate temporum by Alpert of Metz is an indispensable contemporary account for our understanding of the history of the Low Countries at the turn of the first millennium, and provides insight into the organization of the German kingdom at a point of transition that was marked by the end of the Ottonian dynasty

Author : Alpert (von Metz)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Germany
ISBN : 1771103485

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Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, Ca. 1000 by Alpert (von Metz) Pdf

Author : Karl Leyser
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0907628095

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Medieval Germany and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 by Karl Leyser Pdf

The inner workings of early medieval societies cannot be understood without also studying their links - religious, cultural, economic and political - with their neighbours. In this collection Karl Leyser shows how Ottonian and Salian Germany both influenced and was influenced by the societies with which it came into contact. While the author's central interest is in Germany, his work is of value for the study of medieval European society as a whole.

Author : John R. Sommerfeldt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761868392

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The Flight and Fall of the Eagle by John R. Sommerfeldt Pdf

The intellectual, cultural, and political renaissance that characterized the Europe of Charlemagne was threatened severely by invasions from all sides. Only Germany avoided the consequent phenomenon of feudalism. This was due to a series of rulers who provided protection to the people, reform to the Church, and patronage of cultural revival. From the thirteenth century, this cultural and political unity began to fragment, and by 1648 what had been a successful revival of the Roman Empire had been destroyed. In addition to tracing the political, cultural and religious history of medieval Germany, this volume examines the thought of outstanding German men and women, and includes an extensive account of the changing status of German Jews.

Author : Manfred Stassen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826415113

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Philosophical and Political Writings: Martin Heidegger by Manfred Stassen Pdf

Here is the essential Heidegger, a most controversial figure. Following a cogent introduction by Manfred Stassen, this collection is divided into three sections: The Man - Politics and Ideology; The Method - Philosophy from Phenomenology to "Thanking"; and The Message - From "Being" to "Beyng." All but one of the translations is a classic rendition. Among the content: "The Jewish Contamination of German Spiritual Life" (1929); "Follow the Fnhrer!" (1934); "The Thinker as Poet" (1947); "The Task of Destructuring of the History of Ontology (1927); "My Way to Phenomenology" (1963); "Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being a Self: The 'They' (1927); "Care as the Being of Da-sein" (1927); "àPoetically, Man Dwellsà" (1951); "The Question Concerning Technology" (1949); and much more.

Author : Ernst Ralf Hintz,Scott E. Pincikowski
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139894

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The End-times in Medieval German Literature by Ernst Ralf Hintz,Scott E. Pincikowski Pdf

Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.

Author : Vickie L. Ziegler
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1571132910

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Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature by Vickie L. Ziegler Pdf

Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire in a sort of hagiographic amber, much as it was portrayed in the mid-twelfth-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque "The Hot Iron," written in the mid-thirteenth century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting the almost immediate abandonment of trial by fire as a legal proof in many areas after the council's decision."

Author : Reima Välimäki
Publisher : Heresy and Inquisition in the
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1903153867

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Heresy in Late Medieval Germany by Reima Välimäki Pdf

First major survey of the German inquisitor Petrus Zwicker, one of the most significant figures in the repression of heresy. In the final years of the fourteenth century, waves of persecution shattered German-speaking Waldensian communities, with the scale of inquisitions matching or even greater than the better-known trials in southern France. In the middle of the persecution was the influential and enigmatic figure of the Celestine provincial and inquisitor of heresy, Petrus Zwicker (d.after 1404). His surviving texts and inquisition protocols offer a fresh, intriguing picture of the medieval repression of heresy. Zwicker was an accurate and intelligent interrogator with direct access to the Waldensians' sources and knowledge. But although he is one of the most effective inquisitors of the MiddleAges, he was even more important as the author of anti-heretical texts. His Cum dormirent homines became a standard work on Waldensianism in the fifteenth century (and this study attributes another anti-heretical treatise, the Refutatio errorum, to him). With his unique biblicist and pastoral style, Zwicker struck the right note at a moment when the Church was in crisis. His texts spread rapidly, they were preached to the people and translated into German, and helped to build the fear of heresy, anti-clericalism and disobedience in the years of the Great Western Schism. This book is the first full-length study on Zwicker and his significance to the history of heresy and its repression. It offers a meticulous analysis of the sources left by him and teases out new, ground-breaking discoveries from careful examination of previously poorly known manuscripts. Dr REIMA VALIMAKI isa postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Cultural History, University of Turku

Author : Martha Bayless
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350187634

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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages by Martha Bayless Pdf

Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, Boccaccio, Juan Ruiz, and Hrothswitha of Gandersheim, as well as lesser-known works and genres, such as songs of insult, nonsense-texts, satirical church paintings, topical jokes, and obscene pilgrim badges. The analysis touches on most of the literatures of medieval Europe, including a discussion of the formal attitudes toward humor in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. The volume demonstrates the many ways in which medieval humor could be playful, casual, sophisticated, important, subversive, and even dangerous. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics.

Author : Samuel Kline Cohn,Douglas Aiton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027800

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Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns by Samuel Kline Cohn,Douglas Aiton Pdf

Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.

Author : Oliver J. Thatcher,Edgar Holmes McNeal
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664635907

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A Source Book for Mediæval History by Oliver J. Thatcher,Edgar Holmes McNeal Pdf

A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.