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The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300 - Translation and Commentary (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300 - Translation and Commentary (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the
mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history
remains largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of
modern Europe. Until recently, almost all of the sources for
medieval Germany were available only in the original Latin or in
German translations, while most scholarly investigation has been in
German. The limited English-language scholarship has focused on
royal politics and the aristocracy. Even today, English-speaking
students will find very little about the lower social orders, or
Germany's urban centers that came to play an increasingly important
role in the social, economic, political, religious, and military
life of the German kingdom after the turn of the millennium. The
translation of the four texts in this volume is intended to help
fill these lacunae. They focus on the city of Worms in the period
c.1000 to c.1300. From them readers can follow developments in this
city over a period of almost three centuries from the perspective
of writers who lived there, gaining insights about the lives of
both rich and poor, Christian and Jew. No other city in Germany
provides a similar opportunity for comparison of changes over time.
As important, Worms was an 'early adopter' of new political,
economic, institutional, and military traditions, which would later
become normative for cities throughout the German kingdom. Worms
was one of the first cities to develop as a center of episcopal
power; it was also one of the first to develop an independent urban
government, and was precocious in emerging as a de facto city-state
in the mid-thirteenth century. These political developments, with
their concomitant social, economic, and military consequences,
would define urban life throughout the German kingdom. In sum, the
history of Worms as told in the narrative sources in this volume
can be understood as illuminating the broader urban history of the
German kingdom at the heigh
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