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The paper examines international involvement in the completion of Germany’s most famous ‘national monument’. Long before Cologne Cathedral was listed as UNESCO World Heritage, it played an important part in the development of an international heritage consciousness.
- Astrid Swenson
The Age of Imperial Bishops I: Ottonian Ducal Archbishops and Imperial Kin (925-1024) Download. XML. The Age of Imperial Bishops II: Early Salian Archchancellors and Urban Patrons (1024-1056) Download. XML. The Great Pivot: Herrschaft meets Gemeinde in the Pontificate of Anno II (1056-1075) Download. XML.
May 17, 2021 · The first, governed by the Roman city’s need for Germanic foederati to protect it from other Germanic peoples across the Rhine, involved the settlement of the Franks after they conquered the city in 355, and before them, in the first century AD, of the Ubians.
- Henry Mayr-Harting
- 2021
This first history of Cologne, available in English, challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.
liberal roots, aban-doning freedom for unity. Like Germany’s political unification, the cathedral’s completion only became a reality once. Prussian might and money was thrown behind it. The Prussian eagle that looked down from the cathedral spires on Kaiser and Volk during the completion celebration perfectly repre.
- Astrid Swenson
- 2015
Sep 20, 2018 · This first history of Cologne available in English challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.
Jan 1, 2019 · Download reference work entry PDF. Introduction. Cologne is on the River Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the west of Germany. Long an important trade centre, by the 20th century it was among Germany’s leading industrial and commercial powerhouses. History.
