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The konradiner : a study in genealogical methodology
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ISBN: 3465022262 9783465022268 Year: 1990 Volume: 47 Publisher: Frankfurt a.M. Klostermann

Bayern. 1 : Franken : Die Regierungsbezirke Oberfranken, Mittelfranken und Unterfranken.
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ISBN: 3422030514 Year: 1999 Volume: *8 Publisher: München Deutscher Kunstverlag


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Pragmatische Schriftlichkeit und Archivpflege der Zisterzienser : Ordenszentralismus und regionale Vielfalt, namentlich in Franken und Altbayern (1098-1525)
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ISBN: 382586491X 9783825864910 Year: 2003 Volume: 17 Publisher: Münster : Lit,


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Bruderschaften in Franken : Kirchen- und sozialgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zum spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Bruderschaftswesen.
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ISBN: 3877170382 9783877170380 Year: 1986 Volume: 35 Publisher: Wurzburg Schöningh

Vom Lehnhof zur Reichsritterschaft : Strukturen des fränkischen Niederadels am Übergang vom Späten mittelalter zur frühen Neuzeit
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ISBN: 3515071091 Year: 1997 Publisher: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner,

Reformation and the German territorial state : Upper Franconia, 1300-1630
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ISBN: 1283011255 9786613011251 1580467490 1580465668 158046274X Year: 2008 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Religious reform and the rise of the territorial state were the central features of early modern German history. Reformation and state-building, however, had a much longer history, beginning in the later Middle Ages and continuing through the early modern period. In this insightful new study, Smith explores the key relationship between the rise of the territorial state and religious upheavals of the age, centering his investigation on the diocese of Bamberg in upper Franconia. During the Reformation, the diocese was split in half: the parishes in the domains of the Franconian Hohenzollerns became Lutheran; those under the secular jurisdiction of the bishops of Bamberg remained Catholic. Drawing from a broad range of archival sources, Smith offers a compelling look at the origins and course of Catholic and Protestant reform. He examines the major religious crises of the period - the Great Schism, the Conciliar Movement, the Hussite War, the Peasant's War, the Thirty Years' War, and the Witch Craze - comparing their impact on the two states and showing how events played out on the local, territorial, and imperial stages. Careful analysis of the sources reveals how religious beliefs shaped politics in the emerging territorial principalities, explaining both the similarities as well as the profound differences between Lutheran and Catholic conceptions of the state. William Bradford Smith is professor of history at Oglethorpe University.

State and nobility in early modern Germany : the knightly feud in Franconia, 1440-1567
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ISBN: 0521561795 052152265X 0511583222 0511004192 9780511004193 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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One of the most striking features of late medieval and early modern German was the countless feuds carried out by nobles. A constant threat to law and order, these feuds have commonly been regarded as a manifestation of the decline - economic and otherwise - of the nobility. This study shows that the nobility was not in crisis at this time. Nor were feuds merely banditry by another name. Rather, they were the result of an interplay between two fundamental processes: princely state-building, and social stratification among the nobility. Offering a new paradigm for understanding the German nobility, this book argues that the development of the state made proximity to princes the single most decisive factor in determining the fortune of a family. The result was a violent competition among the nobility over resources which were crucial to the princes. Feuds played a central role in this struggle that eventually led to the formation of an elite of noble families on whose power and wealth the princely state depended.

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