Jacob Burckhardt and the Studies of the Medieval Urban History-"Conrad von Hochstaden, Erzbischof von K?lln as a Case Study"
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臺大歷史學報, 46, 115-175
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臺大歷史學報
Journal Issue
46
Pages
115-175
Date Issued
2010-12
Date
2010-12
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Abstract
This paper investigates the reasons why Burckhardt turned from the political notion of Ranke’s Prussian School of Historicism to his Swiss perspective, and how Burckhardt broke through the late eighteenth century thinking about cultural history as study of the encompassing “background” of history by opening his own way of dealing with cultural history with more emphasis on humanistic reflections.In 1843, Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) published his historical monograph Conrad von Hochstaden, Erzbischof von K?lln, 1238-1261, in which he examined the conflicts between the Cologne archbishop Konrad of Hochstaden and the ruling patrician burghers—the so-called “die Richerzeche” —of the city. By revealing the fact that the archbishop Konrad’s incontinent desire to manipulate German politics in the mid-thirteenth century was engendered, on the one hand, by the exacerbating power struggle between the Holy Roman emperor and the Pope and, on the other hand, by the long-term absence of Frederick II from Germany, Burckhardt argued that the lack of the actual sovereignty in Germany at that time gave the city of Cologne a wonderful opportunity to create its own cultural golden age with diversity and abundance. Burckhardt’s notion of the autonomous development of urban culture against the political strife between emperors and Popes is strengthened by his highlighting of the impartial role Albertus Magnus (c. 1208-1280) played in mediating the power struggles between archbishop Konrad and burghers in the city of Cologne. Thus, he opened the way to establish the basic discourse pattern of his later cultural-historical writing to discuss the very significance of autonomy of culture in the politically troubled time.
Subjects
布克哈特（Jacob Burckhardt）
歐洲中古城市史
孔拉德．侯荷許塔登（Konrad von Hochstaden）
科隆（K?ln）
萊茵城市同盟（Rheinischer St?dtebund）
Jacob Burckhardt
medieval urban history
Cologne (K?ln)
Konrad von Hochstaden
Rheinischer St?dtebund
SDGs
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journal article
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