Andreas Rutz, <i>Die Beschreibung des Raumes. Territoriale Grenzziehungen im Heiligen Römischen Reich.</i> Form und Struktur. Studien zum sozialen Wandel in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, 47. Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2018, 30 black-and-white maps and drawings in text, 20 color plates. 583 pp.
David Nicholas
This superb book concerns how territorial boundaries were drawn in the Holy Roman Empire between Carolingian period and eighteenth century. It shows Land, which from twelfth century referred to conglomeration of legal political rights offices that a lord held over his subjects subject areas, became territory, geographical concept, location determined control. Measurable borders characterize territory but not Land. study explains when transition was made thus concentrates on cartography perceived eventually drawn. uses analytical framework state based personal relations institutional-territorial state. The focus is Bavaria, Franconia, Rhineland Westphalia.
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