Hello medieval history experts:
What are the most important topics that should be covered in a history class about the German-speaking Middle Ages (Holy Roman Empire) up to the rise of the first Habsburgs? By this, I mean specific topics within this empire that do not concern the culture of all of Europe/the world.
What questions do you think the students should work through?
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Were there other problems besides environmental pollution, social problems, health hazards, economic consequences of industrialization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pQHdRjQxrc&list=RDMMKUmrNavXsd0&index=2
Have you tried it yet?
Investiture dispute: How did Heinrich IV, how did Frederick II behave to the respective Pope. Work out similarities and differences.
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The plague and the consequences for the kingdom arise. The special consequences would probably have to be prepared very well, because I find surprisingly little. I believe that Pamdemia and Epedemis have an extreme influence on the time.
It is only my opinion, but for me the Antoninian plague is https://www.derstandard.de/consent/tcf/story/2000115623518/corona-und-the-antoninian-pest https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninische_Pest with the continuation through the Cyprian plague https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian_Pest the main reason for the destability of the Roman Empire. In the Middle Ages, black death was particularly bad even in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_Pest
Would you have been wondering? Hm, very, very hard for my student… thanks for your suggestions.
Who was free, who was unfree?
Effects of the dawn on the homeland?
These are more general European issues because social history.
It’s good that you’re interested in the Middle Ages and the integration into school classes. This epoch actually comes far too short, not only is it very exciting, but it is extremely important to understand today.
But you make a mistake when you try to limit history to a language space that is not as definable as you believe. Because around 600 there was neither German nor 1000. In addition, the Middle Ages was just as today an era in which cultural and political influences of different language and cultural spaces had influenced each other. It is therefore difficult to draw clear limits.
Also, areas of the Holy Roman Empire, for example, were not equal to our current borders or language spaces.
Of course, one can focus on the more or less “German” space, but that would not be good because then much would be lost.
Nevertheless, I want to try to make some suggestions:
What I miss is the following points:
The Middle Ages needs more space and time in teaching, as the importance of the Middle Ages is much higher than one generally believes. Who knows that today’s political municipal structures are going much back to the Middle Ages? Mayor, Senate, Citizenship, City Rights… All this goes back to the Middle Ages.
Instead, even false information is taught.
Hello. I know all about history. To understand: I teach in Sweden a subject that does not exist in Germany: “Mother language”. There you can choose relatively free subjects from language, grammar, literature, history of the country of origin of students. In my case, therefore, for those of parents from the DACH countries.
There is a general history lesson in Sweden and I do not compete with it. Viking times find very wide space – who would have thought that? ^^
I want to supplement the teaching by showing certain “special routes” that the German space is developing differently. Why Germany, Austria and Switzerland are not a state, why we have federal states, why we make a huge crowd around our language (dativ, battery, gender doesn’t know Swedish and writers don’t come in school), why we are religiously divided (99 percent of Sweden were Protestant) etc.
That is why no social history, but political and cultural history that illuminates these special paths. Sure?
Vikings, architecture, Gothic, feudalism, etc. – all common European topics. All right?
But I have cities on the plan anyway. The Hanse is a topic that is enormously important for Sweden anyway.
We had the early Christianization and today I just came from the investiture dispute, directly from Cluny, next week we go to Canossa 🙂
I understand
Then I found the following aspects interesting, which spans a bow from the Viking period into modernity: The Danewerk – from the early middle-aged bollwork to the Danish-Prestige war in 1864 and the battle at the Duppeler ski jumps. This topic is almost unknown even in Germany.
To the question why Germany was united late, the study of the Holy Roman Empire and the concept of a traveling emperor – that should be quite unique in world history. Here it is also possible to attach wonderfully to the investiture dispute.
Then I recommend a look at the Reformation, which was important especially in Germany and also by the book printing invented in Germany with moving letters.
I find the subject of book printing exciting anyway, because it is possible to compare wonderfully modern experiences – namely the revolution of information technology. Within few decades, according to the invention Gutenberg’s millions of books have been printed and distributed! This is quite comparable to the emergence of the Internet – a very fast, sudden dissemination of information with great social consequences.
I also find it unsuitable, but it is a very common language regulation.
I find the term special route for the Middle Ages very wrong. The development was just different from Sweden or France.
To what extent the Reformation would have been decisive for the German special route, I just did not agree. They also took over the Scandinavian central states.
But on the whole, it’s all about me. How the Monstrum HRR gradually disassembled instead of growing together like others. Beyond the Franconian Palatinates we are already out, since we are now “in the 11th century”. century are”.
Do you have other path and focal points that are paradigmatic for decentralization?
The city foundations of the imperial free cities.
You mean the free rich cities?
Yeah, they were just under the emperor and not some rhyme.
Yeah, that’s clear.
Look in here, you’ll find a lot of information on your question.
https://www.studysmarter.de/schule/geschichte/mittelalter/habsburger/
https://www.democratiewebstatt.at/ankommen-democratie-und-language-ueben/die-habsburger
https://www.lernhelfer.de/schuelerlexikon/geschichte/artikel/die-heiratpolitik-der-habsburger