Graham A. Loud is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds and was Head of the School of History at Leeds from 2012-15.

Jochen Schenk has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the German Historical Institute in London and a temporary lecturer at the University of Glasgow.

Section A: Introductory Essays

1. A Political and Social Revolution: The Development of the Territorial Principalities in Germany

[Graham A. Loud]

2. The Growth of Princely Authority: Themes and Problems

[Jörg Rogge]

Section B: Forms and Structures of Power

3. Princely Lordship in the Reign of Frederick Barbarossa: An Historiographical Analysis

[Werner Hechberger]

4. Urban Lordships

[Gabriel Zeilinger]

5. The Imperial Town: The Example of Nuremberg

[Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich]

6. Forms and Structures of Power: Ecclesiastical Lordship

[Andreas Bihrer]

7. Foundations and Forms of Princely Lordship: The Archbishopric of Mainz

[Joachim Schneider]

8. Eichstätt: Abbey, Diocese, Lordship

[Helmut Flachenecker]

Section C: Strategies of Power

9. Marriage and Inheritance

[Karl-Heinz Spiess]

10. The Propaganda of Power: Memoria, History, Patronage

[Stefan Tebruck]

11. Violence, Feud, and Peacemaking

[Christine Reinle]

Section D: The Geography of Power

12. Centres and Peripheries of Power

[Paul-Joachim Heinig]

13. The Territorial Principalities in Lotharingia

[Michel Margue and Michel Pauly]

14. The Rise of the Wettins

[André Thieme]

15. Saxony After 1180

[Arnd Reitemeier]

16. Pomerania, Mecklenburg and the "Baltic Frontier": Adaptation and Alliances

[Oliver Auge]

Section E: The Consolidation, Expansion and Disruption of