Len Scales
Biographic Data
| ID | 5082074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Len Scales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Len |
| FAMILY NAME | Scales |
| SIGNATURE | SCALES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making the Holy Roman Empire Holy: Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium , by Vedran Sulovsky
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Ever Closer Union? Unification, Difference, and the ‘Making of Europe’, c .950– c .1350
The article explores the relationships between the universal and the particular in high medieval Europe. It notes the enduring appeal of views of the period as being marked by an increasingly unified ‘European’ culture and explains their modern salience. It observes the parallel phenomena of division and plurality in the period and the prominence of themes of conflict and fragmentation in the following centuries. The purpose of the article is to …
Divina favente clemencia: Auserwählung, Frömmigkeit und Heilsvermittlung in der Herrschaftspraxis Kaiser Karls IV., by Martin Bauch
Wenceslas Looks Out: Monarchy, Locality, and the Symbolism of Power in Fourteenth-Century Bavaria
This article reassesses the reputation enjoyed by Charles IV of Luxemburg, emperor and king of Bohemia (r. 1346/1347–1378), as the author of a program aimed at projecting his monarchy via visual media. Current scholarship, which stresses the centrally directed character of this program, regards it as serving clear political goals, as “propaganda” to unify Charles's far-flung territories. This article challenges that view. It contends that a strai…
The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire, by Emily Albu
The Peutinger map, named from its sixteenth-century custodian, the Augsburg humanist Konrad Peutinger, is a Roman road-map of strikingly antique appearance, probably made in south-western Germany in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. It has long attracted interest for the light which it promises to shed upon the relationship between antique and medieval forms of geographical knowledge. It is from this perspective that Emily Albu, too, …
Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Constitutiones et Acta Publica Imperatorum et Regum, Vol. 12: Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Reiches und seiner Verfassung 1357—1359, ed. Ulrike Hohensee, Mathia…
It is a sign of interesting times when even the researchers at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica caution readers, as do the editors of the latest volume of the emperor Charles IV’s Constitutiones, against placing undue weight upon the written deposits of the medieval past. It is a sign, more precisely, of current thinking on a project with a long, troubled and, in some ways, still unresolved history. Publishing legal texts (Leges) for the Germani…
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…
Grenzerfahrung und monarchische Ordnung: Europa 1200–1500, by Bernd Schneidmüller
This is a book about difference. It is a book about divisions and distinctions, their construction in the minds of late medieval Europeans, and the seemingly inexhaustible fecundity of late medieval minds in their generation and deployment. It is a book about the multiplication and entrenchment of those divisions across a broadly-drawn late medieval era, extending from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. ‘In the Middle Ages’, writes the author,…
The Shaping of German Identity: Authority and Crisis, 1245–1414
German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that there existed a single German people, with its own lands, language and character, became increasingly widespread, as was expressed in written works of the period. This book - the first on its subject …
Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond By Caroline Walker Bynum
Memoria: Fama: Historia: Schlachtengedenken und Identitätsstiftung am lothringischen Hof (1477-1525) nach dem Sieg über Karl den Kühnen
Bread, Cheese and Genocide: Imagining the Destruction of Peoples in Medieval Western Europe
Western European society in the middle ages is generally perceived as lying, in its modes of thought and action, far remote from those acts of mass ethnic destruction which have been a recurrent element in world history since the early twentieth century. Yet medieval Europeans too were capable of envisaging the violent obliteration of peoples. Indeed, the view that such acts had occurred in times past and were liable to occur again was deeply emb…
Power and the Nation in European History
Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspec…
Germen Militiae: War and German Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Germen Militiae: War and German Identity in the Later Middle Ages Get access Len E. Scales Len E. Scales University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 180, Issue 1, August 2003, Pages 41–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/180.1.41 Published: 01 August 2003
The Cambridgeshire Ragman Rolls
Journal Article The Cambridgeshire Ragman Rolls Get access LEONARD E. SCALES LEONARD E. SCALES University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 452, June 1998, Pages 553–579, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.452.553 Published: 01 June 1998
Bread, Cheese and Genocide: Imagining the Destruction of Peoples in Medieval Western Europe
Western European society in the middle ages is generally perceived as lying, in its modes of thought and action, far remote from those acts of mass ethnic destruction which have been a recurrent element in world history since the early twentieth century. Yet medieval Europeans too were capable of envisaging the violent obliteration of peoples. Indeed, the view that such acts had occurred in times past and were liable to occur again was deeply emb…
Germen Militiae: War and German Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Germen Militiae: War and German Identity in the Later Middle Ages Get access Len E. Scales Len E. Scales University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 180, Issue 1, August 2003, Pages 41–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/180.1.41 Published: 01 August 2003
The Cambridgeshire Ragman Rolls
Journal Article The Cambridgeshire Ragman Rolls Get access LEONARD E. SCALES LEONARD E. SCALES University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 452, June 1998, Pages 553–579, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.452.553 Published: 01 June 1998
Germen Militiae: War and German Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Germen Militiae: War and German Identity in the Later Middle Ages Get access Len E. Scales Len E. Scales University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 180, Issue 1, August 2003, Pages 41–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/180.1.41 Published: 01 August 2003
Power and the Nation in European History
Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspec…
Bread, Cheese and Genocide: Imagining the Destruction of Peoples in Medieval Western Europe
Western European society in the middle ages is generally perceived as lying, in its modes of thought and action, far remote from those acts of mass ethnic destruction which have been a recurrent element in world history since the early twentieth century. Yet medieval Europeans too were capable of envisaging the violent obliteration of peoples. Indeed, the view that such acts had occurred in times past and were liable to occur again was deeply emb…
Memoria: Fama: Historia: Schlachtengedenken und Identitätsstiftung am lothringischen Hof (1477-1525) nach dem Sieg über Karl den Kühnen
Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond By Caroline Walker Bynum
The Shaping of German Identity: Authority and Crisis, 1245–1414
German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that there existed a single German people, with its own lands, language and character, became increasingly widespread, as was expressed in written works of the period. This book - the first on its subject …
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…
Grenzerfahrung und monarchische Ordnung: Europa 1200–1500, by Bernd Schneidmüller
This is a book about difference. It is a book about divisions and distinctions, their construction in the minds of late medieval Europeans, and the seemingly inexhaustible fecundity of late medieval minds in their generation and deployment. It is a book about the multiplication and entrenchment of those divisions across a broadly-drawn late medieval era, extending from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. ‘In the Middle Ages’, writes the author,…
The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire, by Emily Albu
The Peutinger map, named from its sixteenth-century custodian, the Augsburg humanist Konrad Peutinger, is a Roman road-map of strikingly antique appearance, probably made in south-western Germany in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. It has long attracted interest for the light which it promises to shed upon the relationship between antique and medieval forms of geographical knowledge. It is from this perspective that Emily Albu, too, …
Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Constitutiones et Acta Publica Imperatorum et Regum, Vol. 12: Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Reiches und seiner Verfassung 1357—1359, ed. Ulrike Hohensee, Mathia…
It is a sign of interesting times when even the researchers at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica caution readers, as do the editors of the latest volume of the emperor Charles IV’s Constitutiones, against placing undue weight upon the written deposits of the medieval past. It is a sign, more precisely, of current thinking on a project with a long, troubled and, in some ways, still unresolved history. Publishing legal texts (Leges) for the Germani…
Divina favente clemencia: Auserwählung, Frömmigkeit und Heilsvermittlung in der Herrschaftspraxis Kaiser Karls IV., by Martin Bauch
Wenceslas Looks Out: Monarchy, Locality, and the Symbolism of Power in Fourteenth-Century Bavaria
This article reassesses the reputation enjoyed by Charles IV of Luxemburg, emperor and king of Bohemia (r. 1346/1347–1378), as the author of a program aimed at projecting his monarchy via visual media. Current scholarship, which stresses the centrally directed character of this program, regards it as serving clear political goals, as “propaganda” to unify Charles's far-flung territories. This article challenges that view. It contends that a strai…
Ever Closer Union? Unification, Difference, and the ‘Making of Europe’, c .950– c .1350
The article explores the relationships between the universal and the particular in high medieval Europe. It notes the enduring appeal of views of the period as being marked by an increasingly unified ‘European’ culture and explains their modern salience. It observes the parallel phenomena of division and plurality in the period and the prominence of themes of conflict and fragmentation in the following centuries. The purpose of the article is to …
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Making the Holy Roman Empire Holy: Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium , by Vedran Sulovsky
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