Add to ORKGThis paper seeks to establish what, if anything, the Empire’s Italian territories meant for its late-medieval rulers and for other northern adherents of the Reich, beyond a tempting, if troublesome, source of ideological and material resources to exploit in pursuit of cisalpine goals. It argues that the tendency, deeply rooted in the older German (and Italian) scholarship, to ignore or disparage the activities of late-medieval emperors in the south, reflected, and has served to perpetuate, misleading views of the nature of the late-medieval Empire itself. It contends that more recent approaches, no longer intent on viewing the Reich only as a kind of precocious but ultimately failed German “state”, offer the potential for more illuminating ...
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid-sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between th...
This article analyzes the aftermath of the Gothic War in northern Italy, particularly the battles be...
ENGLISH: Over the last few decades, German and Italian scholarships in the field of medieval constit...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
"The present book is the result of the conference 'Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii. From the R...
Writing towards the close of the thirteenth century, the German polemicist Alexander von Roes return...
Royal efforts to create national states and strong monarchies during the later Middle Ages succeeded...
‘The dear Holy Roman Empire, whatever holds it together?’ sings a reveller in Auerbach's Cellar in p...
In the contemporary world we are increasingly aware of global processes which transcend the interest...
This article reviews six essay collections and one monograph on late medieval and early modern polit...
In the 1540s, Italian princes, lords and cardinals wrote to each other using a secret, highly imagin...
In 1997 a new collaborative research project was initiated by the British School at Rome. This proje...
The paper examines the changing concept of the Roman Imperium from the time of the emperor Theodosiu...
To simplify the list of sources, all accounts postdate 1985, apart from a few key earlier works. The...
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid-sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between th...
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid-sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between th...
This article analyzes the aftermath of the Gothic War in northern Italy, particularly the battles be...
ENGLISH: Over the last few decades, German and Italian scholarships in the field of medieval constit...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
"The present book is the result of the conference 'Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii. From the R...
Writing towards the close of the thirteenth century, the German polemicist Alexander von Roes return...
Royal efforts to create national states and strong monarchies during the later Middle Ages succeeded...
‘The dear Holy Roman Empire, whatever holds it together?’ sings a reveller in Auerbach's Cellar in p...
In the contemporary world we are increasingly aware of global processes which transcend the interest...
This article reviews six essay collections and one monograph on late medieval and early modern polit...
In the 1540s, Italian princes, lords and cardinals wrote to each other using a secret, highly imagin...
In 1997 a new collaborative research project was initiated by the British School at Rome. This proje...
The paper examines the changing concept of the Roman Imperium from the time of the emperor Theodosiu...
To simplify the list of sources, all accounts postdate 1985, apart from a few key earlier works. The...
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid-sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between th...
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid-sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between th...
This article analyzes the aftermath of the Gothic War in northern Italy, particularly the battles be...
ENGLISH: Over the last few decades, German and Italian scholarships in the field of medieval constit...