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Bread, cheese and genocide: imagining the destruction of peoples in medieval western Europe (2007)
Journal Article
Scales, L. (2007). Bread, cheese and genocide: imagining the destruction of peoples in medieval western Europe. History, 92(307), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229x.2007.00396.x

Western European society in the middle ages is generally perceived as lying, in its modes of thought and action, far remote from those acts of mass ethnic destruction which have been a recurrent element in world history since the early twentieth cent... Read More about Bread, cheese and genocide: imagining the destruction of peoples in medieval western Europe.

Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation? (2005)
Book Chapter
Scales, L. (2005). Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation?. In L. Scales, & O. Zimmer (Eds.), Power and the nation in European history (166-191). Cambridge University Press

The following text is taken from the publisher's website. "Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts... Read More about Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation?.

Monarchy and German identity in the later Middle Ages (2001)
Journal Article
Scales, L. (2001). Monarchy and German identity in the later Middle Ages. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 83(3), 167-200. https://doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.83.3.10

'What is the German's fatherland?', Ernst Moritz Arndt famously demanded to know. Also famous is his own answer. Prussia? Swabia? Where the vine ripens by the Rhine? Where the seagull wheels over the Belt? No: none of these, but something larger and... Read More about Monarchy and German identity in the later Middle Ages.

At the margin of community: Germans in pre-Hussite Bohemia (1999)
Journal Article
Scales, L. (1999). At the margin of community: Germans in pre-Hussite Bohemia. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 9, 327-352. https://doi.org/10.2307/3679408

Arguably, the single most important dimension in the existence of any community, medieval or modern, is its members' shared conviction that it exists, and that its existence represents a significant bond between them. The central and later Middle Age... Read More about At the margin of community: Germans in pre-Hussite Bohemia.