Election In The Early Centuries Of The Holy Roman Empire

Many people have heard of the elections of Holy Roman Emperors, but what not everyone knows is that those elections worked differently throughout the empire's lifetime. In this video, we explore the origins of imperial election and how it worked in the early centuries, getting a grasp of what election meant to the people of the time.
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Works cited and recommendations for further reading:
-Bagge, Sverre. Kings, Politics, and the Right Order of the World in German Historiography c.950-1150 (Brill, 2002).
-Kannowski, Bernd. "The impact of lineage and family connections on succession in medieval Germany’s elective kingdom." In Making and Breaking the Rules: succession in medieval Europe, c.1000-c.1600, Frédérique Lachaud and Michael Penman, eds. (Brepols, 2008): 13-22.
-Mommsen, Theodor Ernst, Karl Frederick Morrison, trans. Imperial lives and letters of the eleventh century (Columbia University Press, 1962). [contains a translation of Wipo's account of Conrad II's election, amongst other things]
-Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages, c.800-1056 (Routledge, 1991).
-Wilson, Peter H. Heart of Europe: a history of the Holy Roman Empire (Harvard University Press, 2016).
-Wolfram, Herwig. Conrad II, 990-1039: emperor of three kingdoms. Denise A. Kaiser, trans. (Penn State University Press, 2006). [If you can read German, I encourage you to read the original instead]
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Outro music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0
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