Written Assignment
All historical writing is based on sources. For primary sources, use the link to the right and your textbooks. The following secondary sources should also help you in writing your historiography of the Holy Roman Empire.
Sources you must print out, read, mark-up, and bring to the scheduled class for discussion:
For Monday, February 27:
- Herzstein, Robert Edwin, ed. The Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages: Universal State or German Catastrophe? Problems in European Civilization. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1966.
For Monday, March 27:
- Bowlus, Charles R. "The Early Kaiserreich in Recent Historiography." Central European History 23, no. 4 (1990): 349-67.
- Matthews, D. A. . "Reflections on the Medieval Roman Empire." History 77, no. 251 (1992): 363-390.
- Peters, Edward. "More Trouble with Henry: The Historiography of Medieval Germany in the Angloliterate World, 1888-1995 " Central European History 28 (1995): 47-72.
- Ullmann, W. "Reflections on the Medieval Empire." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 14 (1964): 89-108.
For the final draft, consult the following books on Reserve in the Corgan Library
- Bryce, James. The Holy Roman Empire. New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1886.
- Heer, Friedrich. The Holy Roman Empire. Translated by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., Publishers, 1968.
- Thompson, James Westfall. Feudal Germany. New York, 1962.
- Tout, T. F. The Empire and the Papacy 918-1273. 8th ed. London: Rivingtons, 1948.
- Wilson, Peter H. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2016.