The Holy Roman Empire : : A Short History /

The Holy Roman Empire : : A Short History / / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger.

A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believeThe 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 form...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
VerfasserIn:
Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara,
MitwirkendeR:
Mintzker, Yair,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 2 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
  • A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. What Was the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation?
  • 2. A Body Made of Head and Limbs
  • 3. Institutional Consolidation, 1495–1521
  • 4. The Challenge of the Reformation, 1521–1555
  • 5. From the Consolidation to the Crisis of the Imperial Institutions, 1555–1618
  • 6. The Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia
  • 7. The Westphalian Order and the Renewed Rise of the Emperor
  • 8. Political Polarization, 1740–1790
  • 9. The Dissolution of the Empire, 1790–1806
  • 10. Once Again: What Was the Holy Roman Empire?
  • THE ROMAN- GERMAN EMPERORS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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