German Imperial Knights

German Imperial Knights
Author: Richard J. Ninness
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000285049

The German imperial knights were branded disobedient, criminal, or treasonous, but instead of finding themselves on the wrong side of history, they resisted marginalization and adapted through a combination of conservative and progressive strategies. The knights tried to turn the elite world on its head through their constant challenges to the princes in the realms of both culture and governance. They held their own chivalric tournaments from 1479-1487, and defied the emperor and powerful princes in refusing to obey laws that violated custom. But their resistance led to a series of disasters in the 1520s: their leaders were hunted down and their castles destroyed. Having failed on their own, they turned to Emperor Charles V in the 1540s and the imperial knighthood was formed. This new status stabilized their position and provided them with important rights, including the choice between Lutheranism and Catholicism. During the Reformation era (1517-1648), no other German group embraced diversity in religion like the imperial knights. Despite the popularity of Protestantism in the group, they stood up to their princely adversaries, now Protestant, becoming champions of the Catholic Church and proved themselves just as staunch defenders of the Church as the Habsburg and Wittelsbach dynasties.

Knight of Love

Knight of Love
Author: Catherine LaRoche
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476710139

In this saucy romance, an English lady turns the damsel-in-distress tale on its head as she escapes her malicious fiancé and fights for both her life and that of the lustful rebel that has become her protector. Lady Lenora Trevelyan, a naïve yet stubborn young lady born to the highest noble houses of England and Germany, finds herself betrothed to the brutal Prince Kurt von Rotenburg-Gruselstadt. But after she is cruelly bruised and flogged by her fiancé, she decides to take the reins of her fate. In the midst of a German revolution, Lenora escapes Kurt’s iron fist and embarks home to England. She quickly finds herself in the hands of a rebel group and their robust, gentle, and handsome leader, Wolfram von Wolfsbach und Ravensworth, the English Earl of Ravensworth. Lenora struggles to deny the passion she feels towards the frustratingly chivalrous Earl but her desire for him continues to bloom. Wolfram hungers nothing other than to fight for democracy and civil rights in uniting Germany and to protect what he assumes is his damsel in distress. Through nights of immeasurable pleasure, Lenora and Wolfram learn that their passion is no match for the revolutionary chaos that ensues. And when Lenora discovers that her protector’s life is threatened, she must risk everything to save her Knight of Love.

Germany in the Age of Absolutism

Germany in the Age of Absolutism
Author: Rudolf Vierhaus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521339360

Reconstructs the structures that marked the history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War.

A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation

A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation
Author: Hajo Holborn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1982-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691007953

... A three-volume reassessment of the last five centuries of German history ...

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Author: Joachim Whaley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199693072

In the first single-author account of German history from the Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's study written in the 1950s, Dr Whaley provides a full account of the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Volume II extends from the Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich.

German Imperial Knights

German Imperial Knights
Author: Richard J. Ninness
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000285022

The German imperial knights were branded disobedient, criminal, or treasonous, but instead of finding themselves on the wrong side of history, they resisted marginalization and adapted through a combination of conservative and progressive strategies. The knights tried to turn the elite world on its head through their constant challenges to the princes in the realms of both culture and governance. They held their own chivalric tournaments from 1479-1487, and defied the emperor and powerful princes in refusing to obey laws that violated custom. But their resistance led to a series of disasters in the 1520s: their leaders were hunted down and their castles destroyed. Having failed on their own, they turned to Emperor Charles V in the 1540s and the imperial knighthood was formed. This new status stabilized their position and provided them with important rights, including the choice between Lutheranism and Catholicism. During the Reformation era (1517-1648), no other German group embraced diversity in religion like the imperial knights. Despite the popularity of Protestantism in the group, they stood up to their princely adversaries, now Protestant, becoming champions of the Catholic Church and proved themselves just as staunch defenders of the Church as the Habsburg and Wittelsbach dynasties.

Germany

Germany
Author: Joseph A. Biesinger
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2006
Genre: Culture
ISBN: 0816074712

A wealth of information is presented in this guide in a variety of formats, including a concise narrative history, a chronology and A to Z entries, to provide readers with a greater understanding of German history, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Property and the German Idea of Freedom

Property and the German Idea of Freedom
Author: Colin F. Wilder
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2024-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004685170

This book offers a new interpretation of German law and politics during the era between the Thirty Years’ War and the French Revolution. Liberal ideas of freedom and equality were prototyped in Germany in property law: through the free disposition of estates, freedom from taxation and other extractions, and free use of paper money. Civil liberty, ideas about equality, and restrictions on arbitrary state power were real, recognized, and meaningful. These freedoms were enjoyed by all classes of Germans. They were thought to have been built atop Germans’ ancient heritage of freedom and a federalist imperial constitution which inspired Montesquieu and the American Founders. Driving these trends were ideas about political economy, enlightened reform, practical problem-solving, as well as forces of supply and demand in everything from the market for books to the market for justice. This book places the story of early modern German freedom close by the side of more familiar stories of England, North America, France, and the Netherlands.

A Traveller's History of Germany

A Traveller's History of Germany
Author: Robert Cole
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-07-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1623710596

Germany is the most heavily populated of all the countries within the European Union. A Traveller’s History of Germany offers a complete and authoritative history of a country from the earliest of time to the present. It presents the facts in a clear and literate format and also gives the reader expert analysis of the events.

German Knighthood, 1050-1300

German Knighthood, 1050-1300
Author: Benjamin Arnold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday. Arnold draws on a rich array of descriptive detail from the lives of individual knights, their families, and various groups to examine knightly customs and practices, the impact of knighthood in the political world of the German Empire, and the curious status of most knights as at once noble and unfree. These unfree knights, argues Arnold, were above all professional warriors in an empire where violence for political ends prevailed--a harsh reality that dictated the structure and development of their class.