The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local principalities. These became the dominant governmental institutions of the late medieval Reich , whose nominal monarchs needed to work with the princes if they were to possess any effective authority. Previous scholarship in English has tended to look at me