Honor Imperii

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Honor Imperii (Latin for honor of the empire ) is a term used in medieval research. However, it has also been documented in documents since the late Salier period .

In 1940 the historian Peter Rassow interpreted the honor imperii as the “central legal term” in the politics of the Roman-German king and emperor Friedrich I from 1152 to 1159. Rassow interpreted the term primarily as “sovereignty” and as a political legal claim. Its interpretation referred specifically to the Constance Treaty of 1153, in which the term appeared. The honor imperii therefore included, among other things, claims of the empire to Lower Italy and to the so-called Mathildic goodsin central Italy. Rassow's interpretation was very influential, but it was also not without contradiction (as the review by Herbert Grundmann showed, who described honor imperii as an “ambiguously indefinite term”). In 1974 Dieter von der Nahmer argued against “a translation with a legally unambiguous term” and for the “basic meaning honor”. His interpretation could not establish itself in research.

More recently, however, the Munich historian Knut Görich has reinterpreted the term primarily from historiographical sources. According to Görich, honor was not a purely legal term, but rather played a central role in symbolic communication . Görich does not understand honor as a moral value, but as "the purely outwardly shown honor of a publicly shown recognition of the rank and rule of the emperor." Accordingly, defamation of the emperor, such as he had to experience from the Milanese, was at the same time one Violation of the dignity of the empire. Barbarossa reacted accordingly.

literature

  • Heinrich Appelt : The imperial idea of ​​Friedrich Barbarossa . In: Gunter Wolf (Ed.): Friedrich Barbarossa (= ways of research 390). Darmstadt 1975, pp. 208-244. [See. also the other articles in this volume.]
  • Knut Görich: The honor of Friedrich Barbarossa. Communication, Conflict, and Political Action in the 12th Century . Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-534-15168-2 .
  • Peter Rassow: Honor imperii. The new policy of Friedrich Barbarossa 1152–1159. New edition supplemented by the text of the Constance Treaty . Darmstadt 1961 (ND from 1940).

Remarks

  1. ^ Peter Rassow: Honor imperii. The new policy of Friedrich Barbarossa 1152–1159. New edition supplemented by the text of the Constance Treaty . Darmstadt 1961, p. 91.
  2. ^ Herbert Grundmann: Review by Rassow, Honor imperii. In: Gunther Wolf (Ed.): Friedrich Barbarossa . Darmstadt 1975, pp. 26–32, quote: p. 30.
  3. ↑ Quotations: Dieter von der Nahmer: On the rule of Friedrich Barbarossa in Italy. In: Studi Medievali 15, 2, 1974, pp. 699 and 687.
  4. ↑ Knut Görich: The honor of Friedrich Barbarossas. Communication, Conflict, and Political Action in the 12th Century . Darmstadt 2001, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Knut Görich: The Staufer. In: Catalog for the exhibition Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 962–1806. From Otto the Great to the end of the Middle Ages. Essays, ed. v. Matthias Puhle and Claus-Peter Hasse, Dresden 2006, pp. 187–197, here: p. 188.
  6. ↑ See Görich's extensive study Die Ehre Friedrich Barbarossas . See also the corresponding review in German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 59 (2003) .