The Holy Roman Empire (eBook)

A Short History

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9026-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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.

Autor

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is professor and chair of early modern history at the University of Münster in Germany. Her many books include her acclaimed biography of Maria Theresa, which won Germany's prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017, and The Emperor's Old Clothes: Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire. Yair Mintzker is professor of history at Princeton University. His books include The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.10.2018
• Übersetzer: Yair Mintzker
• Vorwort: Yair Mintzker
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Schlagworte: Archchancellor • archduke • aristocracy • Augsburg Confession • Benefice • body politic • Brandenburg-Prussia • Calvinism • Catholic Church • Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor • Christendom • Collegiate Church • Confederation of the Rhine • Confessionalization • Constitution • Count Palatine • de facto • Deliberation • Duchy • early modern period • edict • Edict of Restitution • editorial • Electoral Palatinate • Electorate of Saxony • Elector of Mainz • fief • Franco-Prussian War • Fürst • German Prince • Germans • Great Power • Heresy • historian • Holy Roman Emperor • Holy Roman Empire • House of Bourbon • House of Habsburg • House of Wittelsbach • Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire) • Imperial ban • Imperial Circle • Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire) • Imperial immediacy • Imperial Knight • imperial state • Imperial Throne (micronation) • Kingdom of Bohemia • Kingdom of Germany • King of Hungary • King of Rome • Left Bank of the Rhine • Legitimacy (political) • Literature • Lusatia • Majesty • Margrave • Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor • military alliance • military campaign • Monarchy • Napoleon • napoleonic wars • Nobility • northern Germany • Nuremberg • Peace of Augsburg • Peace of Prague (1635) • Peace of Prague (1866) • Peace of Westphalia • Peace treaty • Politics • Primogeniture • Prince-bishop • principality • Protestantism • Protestant Union • reign • Ruler • Secularization • Southern Germany • Sovereignty • Speyer • State-Building • State (polity) • Statute • Strasbourg • Swabia • Swabian League • Tax • Territorial state • The German War • Thirty Years' War • Treaty • Treaty of Teschen • Vassal • war • War of the First Coalition • War of the Second Coalition • Wetzlar
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9026-8 / 1400890268
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9026-2 / 9781400890262