Historians of medieval kingship have been influenced by a teleology that sees the development of the secular modern state as inevitable. Therefore, the desacralisation of kingship is considered a key moment on the path to modern state formation. In Germany, the moment of desacralisation has traditionally been identified in 1077, when king Henry IV submitted to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa. Thereafter, the spell of Ottonian sacral kingship was punctured, and Henry's twelfth‐century successors were forced to look to Roman law and the support of the princes for legitimation. In this essay, we first examine the historiography of this traditional three‐phase paradigm, before introducing some recent scholarship that challenges the paradigm and criticises the universal explanatory power of the demise of sacral kingship as a catch‐all reason for change, at the expense of complex political, social, and economic factors.

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从史学角度看中世纪德国的王权概念

中世纪王权的历史学家受到一种目的论的影响，认为世俗现代国家的发展是不可避免的。因此，王权的ac废化被认为是建立现代国家的关键时刻。在德国，传统上是在1077年确定des废的时刻，当时亨利四世国王在卡诺萨向格里高利七世教皇提出了要求。此后，奥托尼亚的king王权被打断了，亨利十二世纪的继任者被迫寻求罗马法和王子的支持以使其合法化。在这篇文章中，我们首先介绍这种传统的三阶段范式的史学，然后介绍一些新的学者，这些学者挑战范式并批评critic骨王权消亡作为改变的万能理由的普遍解释力，