The Holy Roman Empire 1495 1806 A European Perspective
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2012-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004228721 |
In the early modern period the Holy Roman Empire, or Reich, was one of the oldest and largest European states. Its importance was magnified by its location at the heart of the continent, by the extensive international connections of its leading families, and by the involvement of foreign rulers in its governance. This book breaks new ground in its collective exploration of aspects of cross-border and transnational interaction, and of political and diplomatic, social and cultural relations. There are essays on important turning-points, especially 1648 and 1806; on the patterns of rulership of the emperors themselves; on areas which lay on the margin of the Reich; on neighbouring countries which interacted with the Empire; and on visual and material culture. Contributors are Wolfgang Burgdorf, Olivier Chaline, Heinz Duchhardt, Jeroen Duindam, Robert Evans, Sven Externbrink, Robert Frost, Lothar Höbelt, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Petr Mat'a, Nicolette Mout, Thomas Munck, Géza Pálffy, Jaroslav Pánek, Adam Perłakowski, Friedrich Polleroß, Blythe Alice Raviola. Peter Schröder, Kim Siebenhüner, Peter H. Wilson and Thomas Winkelbauer.
Author | : Peter Hamish Wilson |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780333690765 |
"Drawing on a wealth of specialist studies, Peter Wilson offers an alternative way of looking at the Empire, seeing it not as a failed monarchy or flawed forerunner of a later German nation-state, but on its own terms as a multi-layered structure, combining monarchical, hierarchical and federal elements. Key stages in the Empire's development are explained within the context of wider European history while a final section provides a comprehensive guide to its main institutions and developments across the last four centuries of its existence."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : R. J. W. Evans |
Publisher | : OUP/German Historical Institute London |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199602971 |
The volume presents an accessible summary of several decades of research on the Holy Roman Empire concentrating on its constitutional, religious, and social history between 1495 and 1806. A notable feature is the presentation of succinct summaries by leading continental scholars whose work has largely been inaccessible in English.
Author | : Peter H. Wilson |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1999-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312223601 |
The Holy Roman Empire lasted for over a millennium, yet its development and institutions are still commonly dismissed as largely irrelevant to broader historical issues. Recent scholarship challenges this view but until now has failed to provide a convincing interpretation of the political structure which provided the framework within which such major events as the Reformation and the Thirty Years War developed. Drawing on a wealth of specialist studies, Peter Wilson offers an alternative way of looking at the Empire, seeing it not as a failed monarchy or flawed forerunner of a later German nation-state, but on its own terms as a multi-layered structure combining monarchical, hierarchical and federal elements. Key stages in the Empire's development are explained within the context of wider European history.
Author | : Robert Evans |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2012-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004206833 |
This text offers a collective exploration of aspects of cross-border and transnational interaction in the Holy Roman Empire.
Author | : Friedrich Heer |
Publisher | : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Translation of Das Heilige Rèomische Reich.
Author | : Ronald Asch |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1997-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 134925617X |
Historians have tried time and again to identify the central issues of the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648. The Thirty Years War by Ronald G. Asch puts the religious and constitutional struggle in the Holy Roman Empire squarely back into the centre of events. However, other issues are not neglected. Thus the problems of war finance are shown to be an important key to the interaction between inter-state and domestic conflicts during the war. Equally confessional tensions are analysed as a decisive factor linking international and domestic disputes, and the reader is provided with a succinct narrative account concentrating on the major turning points of the war.
Author | : Peter H. Wilson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1025 |
Release | : 2016-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674915925 |
An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year “Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.” —Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history...Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.” —Wall Street Journal Massive, ancient, and powerful, the Holy Roman Empire formed the heart of Europe from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later. An engine for inventions and ideas, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture, it derived its legitimacy from the ideal of a unified Christian civilization—though this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope for supremacy. In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Holy Roman Empire worked, why it was so important, and how it changed over the course of its existence. The result is a tour de force that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military power and the legacy of its offspring, from Nazi Germany to the European Union. “Engrossing...Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to finish...A book that is relevant to our own times.” —Brendan Simms, The Times “The culmination of a lifetime of research and thought...an astonishing scholarly achievement.” —The Spectator “Remarkable...Wilson has set himself a staggering task, but it is one at which he succeeds heroically.” —Times Literary Supplement
Author | : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Holy Roman Empire |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691217319 |
A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believe The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor. Around 1500, it took on a more formal structure with the establishment of powerful institutions--such as the Reichstag and Imperial Chamber Court--that would endure more or less intact until the empire's dissolution by Napoleon in 1806. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides a concise history of the Holy Roman Empire, presenting an entirely new interpretation of the empire's political culture and remarkably durable institutions. Rather than comparing the empire to modern states or associations like the European Union, Stollberg-Rilinger shows how it was a political body unlike any other--it had no standing army, no clear boundaries, no general taxation or bureaucracy. She describes a heterogeneous association based on tradition and shared purpose, bound together by personal loyalty and reciprocity, and constantly reenacted by solemn rituals. In a narrative spanning three turbulent centuries, she takes readers from the reform era at the dawn of the sixteenth century to the crisis of the Reformation, from the consolidation of the Peace of Augsburg to the destructive fury of the Thirty Years' War, from the conflict between Austria and Prussia to the empire's downfall in the age of the French Revolution. Authoritative and accessible, The Holy Roman Empire is an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of Europe.