Section A: Introductory essays
A political and social revolution: the development of the territorial principalities in Germany / Graham A. Loud
The growth of princely authority: themes and problems / Jörg Rogge
Section B: Forms and structures of power
Princely lordship in the reign of Frederick Barbarossa: an historiographical analysis / Werner Hechberger
Urban lordships / Gabriel Zeilinger
The imperial town: the example of Nuremberg / Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich
Forms and structures of power: ecclesiastical lordship / Andreas Bihrer
Foundations and forms of princely lordship: the Archbishopric of Mainz / Joachim Schneider
Eichstätt: Abbey, Diocese, Lordship / Helmut Flachenecker
Strategies of power
Marriage and inheritance / Karl-Heinz Spiess
The propaganda of power: memoria, history, patronage / Stefan Tebruck
Violence, feud, and peacemaking / Christine Reinle
The geography of power
Centres and peripheries of power / Paul-Joachim Heinig
The territorial principalities in Lotharingia / Michel Margue and Michel Pauly
The rise of the Wettins / André Thieme
Saxony after 1180 / Arnd Reiatemeier
Pomerania, Mecklenburg and the "Baltic frontier": adaptation and alliances / Oliver Uge
Section E: The consolidation, expansion and disruption of power
The Zähringer in Swabia and Burgundy / Thomas Zotz
A success story: Brandenburg in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Lutz Partenheimer
The Babenbergs: frontier march to principality / Christina Lutter
Shaping a dominion: Habsburg beginnings / Martina Stercken
Appendix: Selected primary sources.