Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about "their foreign roots." The Royals- as they say- are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an "imagined community," invented by journalists and historians?
The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors- among others John Rohl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history - open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.
Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about "their foreign roots." The Royals- as they say- are simply a p...
Prinz Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1819-1861) hat als Forderer wissenschaftlicher Institutionen eine erfolgreiche offentliche Wirksamkeit entfaltet. In den Staatsarchiven Coburg und Gotha sowie in den Royal Archives in Windsor Castle neu entdeckte Quellen ermoglichen erstmals ein wissenschaftlich abgesichertes Bild von der universitaren Bildung des Prinzen Albert sowie von der Universitat Bonn und deren Forschungs- und Lehrbetrieb von 1837 bis 1838. Zudem liefert der Band fur die aktuelle Elitenforschung Aufschlusse uber die Bedeutung der Universitat fur die hochadelige Bildung im...
Prinz Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1819-1861) hat als Forderer wissenschaftlicher Institutionen eine erfolgreiche offentliche Wirksamkeit e...
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned...
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne ...
