Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. Crown and Prince: 1. German regal institutions and the princely order in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 2. The crown, its rights, and the princes 3. Was there a 'rise of territorial lordship'? Part II. Princely Title and Office: 4. The imperial house German bishops and abbots 5. Dukes and duchies 6. Counts and the transformation of countries 7. Margraves, counts-palatine, burgraves, and landgraves Part III. Dynasties, Prelates, and Territorial Dominion: 8. From consanguinity to dynasty? 9. Material foundations: colonization, forest, towns, and communications 10. The reform of regional jurisdictions in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 11. The anatomy and nomenclature of princely dominion, 1150-1330 12. Feuds, inheritance, and partition 13. Region and territory: effects and outcome Conclusion Index.
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