Title: The social politics of medieval diplomacy : Anglo-German relations (1066-1307) /
Authors: Huffman, Joseph P., 1959-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Great Britain Foreign relations Germany.; Germany Foreign relations Great Britain.; Great Britain Foreign relations
Abstract: "This book offer an essential history of medieval Germany. It bridges the gaps between Anglo-French and German scholarship and between political and social history. Joseph Huffman makes available German language scholarship, and both English and German history is integrated in an accessible and interesting way. The historiographical implications of this study will be far-reaching."--Jacket.
Contents: Diplomatic relations between the Anglo-Norman and Salian kingdoms -- Renovatio Regnorum et Archiepiscoporum: early Angevin-Staufen relations and the rise of Cologne -- Philip of Heinsberg, Henry the Lion, and Anglo-German relations: cooperation and regionalism -- Richard the Lionheart and Otto IV: itinerant kingship and the city of Cologne -- King John, Otto IV, and Cologne: a case study of kinship, kingship, and diplomacy between medieval political communities -- Cologne archbishops: territorialpolitick, marriage negotiations, and imperial relations with England -- Epilogue: the Quixotic kingship of Richard of Cornwall and Anglo-Cologne diplomacy during Edward I's reign.