The Christian Commonwealth (i) Regnum vs. Sacerdotium—the Struggle for Control
By the latter half of the nineteenth century the name “Canossa” had long since become a piece of shorthand, symbolizing for Germans of strongly nationalistic bent nothing other than the abject humiliation of a German emperor and, indeed, of the German national spirit at the arrogant hands of a forei...
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Published in | The Mortgage of the Past p. 15 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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United States
Yale University Press
24.04.2012
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Summary: | By the latter half of the nineteenth century the name “Canossa” had long since become a piece of shorthand, symbolizing for Germans of strongly nationalistic bent nothing other than the abject humiliation of a German emperor and, indeed, of the German national spirit at the arrogant hands of a foreign religious potentate. When in May 1872, then, Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly and proudly unified GermanReich,proclaimed to the Reichstag that “we will not go to Canossa,” it seemed no more than appropriate that he should do so when launching the so-called May laws aimed at asserting |
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ISBN: | 9780300176339 0300176333 |