2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Investiture Controversy and regnum Teutonicum
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13610460
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | TOKAI UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
MISAGAWA Akihiro Tokai University, School of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (20239213)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | deutsch / Rome / Frank / Investiture Controversy / Gregor VII / Lampert / Annolied / Imperium |
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| Research Abstract |
The medieval Latin word "Teutonici', which means not vernacular-speaking-people but "Germans", appears for the first time in the reign of Emperor Otto III. (994-1002). In the period of the so-called "Investiture Controversy" between Pope Gregory VII. (1073-85) and King Henry IV. (1056-1106), some of the German sources began to use the Latin expression "regnum Teutonicurn" (="German Kingdom"), or "rex Teutonicorurn" (="King of Germans") etc. frequently.
The purpose of this project is to analyze the political and historical background of this remarkable changes, which seem to suggest the special forms of German Identity between the Roman imperial Tradition (cf. Julius Caesar) and Frankish Tradition (cf. Charlemagne) in the High Middle Ages. The main historical sources are as follows : the Letters of Pope Gregory VII., Annales of Lampert of Hersfeld (ca.1078/79) and Annolied of anonymous monk of Koln/Siegburg (ca.1078/81).
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