The Holy Roman Empire : A Short History /
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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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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