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More Trouble With Henry: The Historiography of Medieval Germany in the Angloliterate World, 1888–1995

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Edward Peters
Edward Peters
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Horst Fuhrmann's recent survey of medieval hostility toward Germans and their political structures, chiefly the Empire, has a subtitle (Origins of German Imperialism), that might very well be applied to the fate of the historiography of medieval Germany in the English-speaking world from its considerable prominence up to the eve of the First World War to its low point in the aftermath of the second.

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Central European History , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 47 - 72
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40. On Ullmann, see Tierney, Brian and Linehan, Peter, eds., Authority and Power: Studies on Medieval Law and Government Presented to Walter Ullmann on his Seventieth Birthday (Cambridge, 1980).Google Scholar On Tierney, see Sweeney, James Ross and Chodorow, Stanley, Popes, Teachers, and Canon Law in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, London, 1989);Google Scholar on Kuttner, see Pennington, Kenneth, “Stephan Kuttner,” in Der Einfluss deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland, ed., Lutter, Marcus, stiefel, Ernst C., and Hoeflich, Michael H. (Tübingen, 1993), 361–64.Google ScholarPennington, Kenneth and Hartmann, Wilfried, eds., A History of Medieval Canon Law (Washington, D.C., forthcoming).Google Scholar An important example of American scholarship on German church history is Duggan, Lawrence G, Bishop and Chapter: The Governance of the Bishopric of Speyer to 1552 (New Brunswick, 1978). On émigré historians, see below, p. 000.Google Scholar

41. Strauss, Gerald, Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation (Bloomington and London, 1971);Google ScholarPre-Reformation Germany (New York, 1972).Google Scholar For Strauss, see Fix, Andrew C and Karant-Nunn, Susan C., eds., Germania illustrata: Essays on Early Modern Germany Presented to Gerald Strauss (Kirksville, Missouri, 1992), with a memoir, “Gerald Strauss. Historian,” xix–xxiii.Google Scholar Of the work of the leading German historian of the later Middle Ages, Moraw, Peter, there exists in English a translation of his article, “The Court of the German King and Emperor at the End of the Middle Ages,” in Princes, Patronage, and the Nobility: The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age, ed. Asch, Ronald G. and Birke, Adolf M. (New York, 1991)Google Scholar, Moraw's important survey, Von offener Vefassung zu gestalteter Verdichtung: Das Deutsche Reich im späten Mittelalter 1250 bis 1490 (Berlin, 1985), the third volume of the series Propyläen Weltgeschichte Deutschlands, is one of the works of recent German historical scholarship badly in need of English translation. For others, see below, n. 55.Google Scholar

42. The consequences of these limitations have also been felt in the academic job market, in which positions in Central European medieval history are relatively few, and have been for some years. At least two American scholars, Linda Fowler-Magerl and Stuart Jenks, have made academic careers in Germany.

43. There is a large literature, much of it conveniently referenced in Lehmann, and Sheehan, , eds., An Interrupted Past. See also the work cited above, n. 40.Google Scholar

44. On Kantorowicz, see above, n. 28; on Ladner, see Van Engen, John, “Images and Ideas: The Achievements of Gerhart Burian Ladner,” Viator 20 (1989): 85–115;Google Scholar on Mommsen, see Lerner, , “Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen,” Mommsen, Theodor E., Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ed. Eugene, F. Rice (Ithaca, 1959; reprint Westport, CO 1982).Google ScholarKisch's, GuidoThe Jews in Medieval Germany, 2nd edition (New York, 1970)Google Scholar, represented a field in which there had been extensive German research, but none worth speaking of by Germans in the middle years of this century. recent German research, however, has returned to this topic: Graus, Frantīsek, Pest—Geissler—Judenmorde. Das 14, Jahrhundert als Krisenzeit (Göttingen, 1987);Google ScholarHaverkamp, Alfred, ed., Zur Geschichte der Juden im Deutschland des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (Stuttgart. 1981);Google ScholarHerde, Peter, “Gestaltung und Krisis. Juden und Nichtjuden in Deutschland vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit,” in Neunhundert Jahre Geschichte der Juden in Hessen, ed. Heinemann, Christiane (Wiesbaden, 1983), 1–40.Google Scholar

45. See Van Engen, cited above, n. 44, and below, n. 61; on Morrison, see the “Lobrede” by Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages, 424, and above, n. 38; Benson, Robert L., “Political Renovatio: Two Models from Roman Antiquity,” in Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century, ed. Benson, R. L. and Constable, Giles (Cambridge, Mass., 1982), 299–323.Google Scholar This volume also presented the work of the German historians Peter Classen and Knut Wolfgang Nörr. See also Pennington, Kenneth and Somerville, Robert, eds., Law, Church and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan Kuttner (Philadelphia, 1977).Google Scholar Somerville was the teacher of Uta-Renate Blumenthal, and Benson has produced a student whose work reflects a classic tradition of German historical scholarship: Bernhardt, John W., Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c. 936–1075 (Cambridge, 1993).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

46. Hill, Boyd, The Rise of the First Reich (New York, 1969)Google Scholar; idem, Medieval Monarchy in Action: The German Empire from Henry I to Henry IV (London, New York, 1972). Hill's useful translations supplement those in Mommsen and Morrison, Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century. Hill's 1969 title was unfortunate because it echoed a thesis particularly prominent among many German historians and most German political figures in the NSDAP.Google Scholar

47. Gillingham, John, The Kingdom of Germany in the High Middle Ages (London, 1971).Google Scholar Gillingham's most recent revisionist study is “Elective Kingship and the Unity of Medieval Germany,” German History 9 (1991): 124–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

48. Reuter, Timothy, ed. and trans., The Medieval Nobility: Studies on the Ruling Classes of France and Germany From the Sixth to the Twelfth Century (Amsterdam and New York, 1978).Google Scholar Reuter included essays by Karl Schmid, Karl Hauck, Franz Irsigler, Karl Ferdinand Werner, Gerd Tellenbach, Karl Bosl, and Johanna Maria van Winter. Aside from the work of Cheyette and Reuter, the approach that consists of bringing German evidence together with evidence from other parts of Europe to bear on topical problems in comparative history is well-illustrated in Genicot, Leopold, Rural Communities in the Medieval West (Baltimore, 1990)Google Scholar, and Reynolds, Susan, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe (Oxford, 1984).Google Scholar Another volume that reflects the collaborative thematic work of both German and non-German historians is Bulst, Neithard and Genet, Jean-Philippe, eds., Medieval Lives and the Historian, (Kalamazoo, 1986).Google Scholar

49. As examples of the former, Wolfram, Herwig, “The Shaping of the Early Medieval Kingdom,” Viator 1 (1970): 1–20Google Scholar, and “The Shaping of the Early Medieval Principality as a Type of Non-Royal Rulership,” Viator 2 (1971): 33–51.Google Scholar Of the latter, Staab, Franz, “A Reconsideration of the Ancestry of Modern Political Liberty: The Problem of the So-Called ‘King's Freemen’ (Königsfreie),” Viator 11 (1980): 51–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Wolfram, the successor of Heinrich Fichtenau at the University of Vienna, has also written a perceptive European analysis of medieval studies in the U.S.: Herwig Wolfram “Medieval Studies in America and American Medievalism,” trans. Hill, Boyd H. Jr., Frühmittelalterliche Studien 11 (1977): 396–408.Google Scholar trans. Boyd H. Hill, Jr., also in Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 2 (1981): 1–14. I am grateful to Boyd Hill forthis reference and other advice and interest.Google Scholar

50. Jordan, Karl, Henry the Lion, trans. Falla, P. S. (Oxford and New York, 1986);Google ScholarFichtenau, Heinrich, Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders, trans. Geary, Patrick (Chicago, 1991);Google ScholarBrunner, Otto, “Land” and Lordship, trans. Kaminsky, Howard and James, Van Horn Melton (Philadelphia, 1992);CrossRefGoogle ScholarBorst, Arno, The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer, trans. Winnard, Andrew (Chicago, 1994);Google ScholarRösener, Werner, Peasants in the Middle Ages (Urbana and Champaign, 1992);Google Scholar but see Freed's, John review of Rösener in Central European History 26 (1993): 115–17);CrossRefGoogle ScholarGoetz, Hans-Werner, Life in the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Century, ed. Rowan, Steven, trans. Wimmer, Albert (Notre Dame, 1993).Google Scholar The Grundmann translation is forthcoming. There is also a collection of Arno Borst's essays: Medieval Worlds: Barbarians, Heretics, and Artists in the Middle Ages, trans. Hansen, Eric (Chicago, 1992), with an interesting essay, “My Life,” 244–50.Google Scholar

51. Interestingly, the earlier English publication of the work of Gerhard, Dietrich, Old Europe: A Study of Continuity, 1000–1800 (New York, 1981) established an Angloliterate introduction to ideas that were very similar to those of Brunner, although Gerhard was a student of Friedrich Meinecke and an émigré himself.Google ScholarSee Melton, Edgar, “Comment: Hermann Aubin,” in Lehmann and Melton, Paths of Continuity, 251–61 at 253, n. 11.Google Scholar

52. Sullivan, above, n. 36; Freed, above, n. 3; Bowlus, Charles W., “The Early Kaiserreich in Recent German Historiography,” Central European History 23 no. 4 (1990): 349–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar See also Bowlus, Charles W., Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube (Philadelphia, 1995).Google Scholar Review articles can also sometimes demonstrate a lack of impact of scholarship like much of that described above. Wood, Charles T., “The Return of Medieval Politics,” American Historical Review 94 (1989): 391–404, pays little attention to German scholarship.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

53. Fried, Johannes, “Deutsche Geschichte im früheren und hohen Mittelalter. Bemerkungen zu einigen neuen Gesamtdarstellungen,” Historische Zeitschrift 245 (1987): 625–59, lists at least five of these since 1973. The first of these was the Deutsche Geschichte, edited by Joachim Leuschner, all three of whose medieval volumes have been translated into English.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

54. Fleckenstein, Joseph, Early Medieval Germany, trans. , Smith (Amsterdam, 1978);Google ScholarFuhrmann, Horst, Germany in the High Middle Ages c. 1050–1200, trans. Renter, Timothy (Cambridge, 1986);Google ScholarLeuschner, Joachim, Germany in the Late Middle Ages, trans. MacCormack, Sabine (Amsterdam, 1980).Google Scholar See the perceptive review article by Timothy Reuter on the first and last of these in English translation and the Fuhrmann book in German, “A New History of Medieval Germany,” History 66 (1981): 440–44.Google Scholar

55. Haverkamp, Alfred, Medieval Germany 1056–1273, trans. Braun, Helga and Mortimer, Richard (Oxford, 1988).Google Scholar Haverkamp's volume, like that of Fuhrmann (although the end-dates in each are different—and significant), was part of another series, the Neue Deutsche Geschichte. At least one of these projects, Martin Vogt, ed., Deutsche Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Wiedervereinigung, was reedited in order to accommodate the Wiedervereinigung of 1989 The first edition appeared in 1987 with an excellent chapter on medieval Germany by Hannah Vollrath, the second in 1991 with the new title. Among individual volumes in the new series, a number should certainly be translated into English. Among these are the study of Peter Moraw, cited above, n. 41, and the volumes that chronologically precede it in the Propyläen Geschichte Deutschlands, Fried, Johannes, Der Weg in die Geschichte. Die Ursprünge Deutschlands his 1024 (Berlin, 1994)Google Scholar, and Keller, Hagen, Zwischen regionaler Begrenzung und universalem Horizont. Deutschland im Imperium der Salier und Staufer 1024–1250 (Berlin, 1986).Google Scholar Fried's work begins and concludes with astute discussions of what “German” was in the period. English translations are underway of Weinfürter, Stefan, Herrschaft und Reich der Salier. Grundlinien und Umbruchzeit (Sigmaringen, 1992), and Brühl, Deutschland-Frankreich.Google Scholar

56. Reuter, Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056, the first volume of the three- volume series Longman History of Germany. Reuter's first chapter, 6–17, offers a very useful perspective on many of the topics of this essay. A good example of the new Carolingian scholarship is McKitterick, Rosamond, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians 751–987 (London and New York, 1983). As McKitterick points out (p. 196, n. 12), her narrative tilt toward West Francia in this survey was deliberate, anticipating the Reuter volume. See also above, no. 36.Google Scholar

57. Freed, “Medieval German Social History”: Freed has argued that the predominance of detailed Forschung in German historical scholarship has led to syntheses (Darstellung) having been produced either by non-historians or by non-German historians.

58. Another is the appearance of familiarity with German scholarship by non-specialists. For instance, Mundy, John, Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1150–1309 (New York, 1973), 26 n.: “I am surprised to recognize my debt to a largely German cast of scholars … In the study of medieval history there is no doubt that the German contribution to the relationship of ideas to institutions has been greater than that of any other people.” Another instance is the case of the author of this essay.Google Scholar

59. See Bak, J. M., ed., Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990). Bak's volume contains an essay by Elze, Reinhard, one of the most impressive successors to some of Schramm's interest: “The Ordo for the Coronation of Roger II of Sicily: An Example of Dating from Internal Evidence,” 165–78.Google Scholar

60. See, e.g., Fried, Johannes, Otto III. und Boleslaw Chrobry. Das Widmungsbild des Aachener Evangeliars, der “Akt von Gnesen” und das frühe polnische und ungarische Königtum (Stuttgart, 1989).Google Scholar Another German contribution that should have a wide impact is that of Begriffsgeschicte, the history of concepts. See Richter, Melvin, “Conceptual History (Begriffsgeschichte) and Political Theory,” Political Theory 14 (1986): 604–37CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and idem, “Begriffsgeschichte and the History of Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas 48 (1987): 247–63;CrossRefGoogle ScholarKoselleck, Reinhard, “Begriffsgeschichte and Social History,” trans. Tribe, Keith, Economy and Society 11 (1982): 409–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

61. Grundmann, Herbert, Religiöse Bewegungen im Mittelalter, 2nd edition (Hildesheim, 1961).Google Scholar Grundmann's classic work is soon to appear in an English translation by Steven Rowan from the Notre Dame University Press. See also Van Engen, John, “The Christian Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem,” American Historical Review 91 (1986): 519–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar American examples of Grundmann's influence are Lerner, Robert E., The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1972; reprint Notre Dame, 1992);Google ScholarFreed, John, The Friars and German Society in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge, Mass., 1977)Google Scholar, and Kieckhefer, Richard, European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Learnedand Popular Culture (Berkeley, 1976);Google ScholaridemRepression of Heresy in Medieval Germany (Philadelphia, 1979);Google Scholaridem“The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic,” American Historical Review 99 (1994): 813–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

62. See Bernhardt, above, n. 45, On the impact of the hagiographical work of Frantisek Graus and Friedrich Prinz, see Fouracre, Paul, “Merovingian History and Merovingian Hagiography,” Past & Present 127 (1990): 3–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

63. See Hoffmann, Richard C., Land, Liberties, and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside: Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy of Wroclaw (Philadelphia, 1989);CrossRefGoogle ScholarArnold, Benjamin, Count and Bishop in Medieval Germany: A Study of Regional Power, 1100–1350 (Philadelphia, 1991), and the Kaminsky-Melton translation of Otto Brunner, cited above. Some of these interests are reflected in the numbers of the journal Medieval Prosopography. A recently translated example of Alltagsgeschichte is that of Hans-Werner Goetz's Life in the Middle Ages, cited above, n. 50. German work in social history has been more regularly reviewed in American journals.CrossRefGoogle Scholar See, for example, the review by Cheyette, Fredric in Speculum 55 (1980): 107–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar An example of urban history is Strait, Paul, Cologne in the Twelfth Century (Gainesville, 1974).Google Scholar

64. Howell, Martha C., Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (Chicago, 1986);CrossRefGoogle Scholaridem, with the collaboration of Suzanne Wemple and Kaiser, Denise, “A Documented Presence: Medieval Women in Germanic Historiography,” Women in Medieval History and Historiography, ed. Stuard, Susan Mosher (Philadelphia, 1987)Google Scholar 110–31; 171–84, tells the historiographical story well. Since Howell published this essay a useful bibliography has appearedcitation: Affeldt, Werner, Nolte, Cordula, Reiter, Sabine, Vorwerk, Ursula, eds., Frauen im Mittelalter. Eine ausgewählte, kommentierte Bibliographie (Frankfurt, Bern, New York, Paris, 1990).Google Scholar On women rulers, most recently Jäschke, Kurt-Ulrich, Notwendige Gefährtinnen: Königinnen der Salierzeit als Herscherinnen und Ehefrauen im römisch-deutschen Reich des 11. und beginnenden 12. Jahrhunderts (Saarbrücken and Scheidt, 1991).Google Scholar There is a recent review article: Röckelein, H., “Historische Frauenforschung. Ein Literaturbericht zur Geschichte des Mittelalters,” Historische Zeitschrift 255 (1992): 377–409.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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