The historiographic tradition for the tenth-century Saxon Ottonian dynasty has without doubt been influenced by Germany's more recent past. Events in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shaped the worldviews of historians both within Germany and without. These events also had a direct effect on the methodologies employed by those historians in studying medieval Germany, and helped to suppress interest in the field by non-German historians. But in the last decades of the twentieth century, there was a kind of watershed for Ottonian studies. Historians who remain influential yet today began to ask new questions and approach the field with new methodologies that took work on the Ottonians in new directions. Additionally, these new approaches have stimulated lively and often contentious debates. There is much about Ottonian government that continues to puzzle scholars. This article provides a sketch of some of the main institutions of Ottonian governance, using these as a way to introduce the reader to the historiography and historiographical debates in the field.

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历史学视角下的奥托尼亚德国统治

毫无疑问，十世纪的撒克逊人奥托尼亚王朝的史学传统受到了德国近代历史的影响。19世纪和20世纪的事件塑造了德国内外史学家的世界观。这些事件也直接影响了那些历史学家在研究中世纪德国时所采用的方法，并有助于抑制非德国历史学家对该领域的兴趣。但是在二十世纪的最后几十年，奥托尼亚研究有了一个分水岭。仍然具有影响力的历史学家今天开始提出新的问题，并以新的方法论朝着这个领域发展，这些方法论在新的方向上研究了奥托顿人。此外，这些新方法还引发了活跃且经常引起争议的辩论。奥托尼亚政府有很多事情继续困扰着学者。本文概述了奥托尼亚统治的一些主要制度，并以此为读者向该领域介绍了史学和史学辩论。