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German History 2009 27(1):145-149; doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghn081
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved.

Beyond the Regnum Teutonicum

Len Scales

Durham University

l.e.scales{at}durham.ac.uk


  Abstract

The essay evaluates the distinctiveness and importance of the work of Timothy Reuter, based on a major recent collection of his writings. It suggests that Reuter's roots in both the German and English scholarly traditions, combined with his unusually broad historical interests, enabled him to bring unique perspectives to bear upon the development of European political institutions, mentalities, and modes of behaviour during a period—the ninth to twelfth centuries—which is still often ascribed fundamental formative importance in European life. In particular, Reuter succeeded in transcending some of the structural limitations of both the English and (post-war, West-) German historiographies of the central medieval period.

Keywords: Reuter, Timothy, medieval Germany, Europe, comparative history, political institutions, political mentalities, historiography

Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities. By Timothy Reuter, edited by Janet L. Nelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. xix + 483 pp. £55.00 (hardback).


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