Part I. German history in the High Middle Ages - Concepts, Explanations,
Facts: 1. The three 'essentials' of history - space, time, and man; 2.
Germany in the Europe of the high Middle Ages; Part II. 'Progress and
Promise': The German Empire in the Mid Eleventh Century: 3. Social
stratification and the structure of government in the Ottonian and Salian
period; 4. Rex et sacerdos - the priestly kingship of Henry III (1039-56);
5. Strengths and weaknesses of Salian kingship; 6. Henry III as Roman
patricius and the German popes; 7. The beginnings and aims of church
reform; 8. The distance from the rest of Europe: France, England and the
North; Part III. From Christus Domini to Antichrist: The King of Germany
and the Investiture Contest: 9. The reign of Henry IV and its consequences;
10. The rise of the secular state and the priestly church; Part IV.
Political Reorientation and Emergent Diversity: From Salian Imperial Church
System to Staufer Kingship: 11. The results of the investiture contest; 12.
'The love of learning and the desire for God': church and spirituality in
the age of Bernard of Clairvaux; 13. Lothar III: kingship without a future;
14. Conrad III: kingship without imperial glory; Part V. The Centre-Point
of the German Middle Ages: Frederick Barbarossa and His Age: 15. The
election of Frederick I and the policy of balance: Frederick and the Empire
before the Alexandrine schism; 16. Empire and papacy in the struggle for
supremacy; 17. New forms of government; 18. Henry VI and the shift in the
Empire's centre of gravity; Bibliography; Index.
