The Northern Lands : Germanic Europe, c.1270 - c.1500 (Paperback)

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Of Dynasty, Diplomacy and Rebellion: Kingdoms, Principalities and Federations in the Northern Lands:

1. Late Medieval England

2. The Low Countries: Crossroads of the Northern Lands

3. Denmark, Scandinavia and the German Baltic Coast

4. Crown, Princes and States in Late Medieval Germany

Part II: The Bonds of Community: Statecraft, Sovereignty, Law and Language:

5. The Administration of Sovereignty

6. Law and Justice

7. Language, Group Identity and Proto-National Consciousness

Part III: The Strategies of Lineage:

8. Comparative Elites

9. The Family and Gender Relations in the Northern Lands

Part IV: Urbanization and Trade: The Northern Lands as an Economic Region:

10. Urbanization in the Northern Lands

11. The Commercial Integration of the Northern Lands

Conclusion: Of Integration, Disintegration and Reorientation

Illustration Sources and Credits

Bibliography

Index