Research Catalog

Title

The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 / edited by R.J.W. Evans, Michael Schaich and Peter H. Wilson.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Evans, R. J. W. (Robert John Weston), 1943-
• Schaich, Michael.
• Wilson, Peter H. (Peter Hamish)
• German Historical Institute in London.

Description

xi, 397 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Over the last forty years or so, research on the history of the 'Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation' (1495-1806) has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Once derided as a political non-entity, a chaotic assemblage of countless principalities and statelets that lacked coercive power and was stifled by encrusted structures and procedures, the Reich has been fully rehabilitated by more recent historiography. It is now being hailed by some as a model of peaceful conflict resolution in the centre of Europe which, in the long run, was able to defuse the religious tensions created by the confessional divide of the sixteenth century and to protect its smaller members against the voracious appetite of more powerful neighbours.

Series Statement

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Uniform Title

Studies of the German Historical Institute London.

Subject

• Constitutional history > Holy Roman Empire
• Holy Roman Empire > History > 1517-1648
• Holy Roman Empire > History > 1648-1804
• Holy Roman Empire > History > 1273-1517
• Holy Roman Empire > Social conditions > 16th century
• Holy Roman Empire > Social conditions > 17th century

Note

• "German Historical Institute London."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The old reich: a federation or hierarchical system? / Karl Otmar von Aretin -- The old reich: the state and nation of the Germans / Georg Schmidt -- The role of Imperial Aulic Council in the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire / Leopold Auer -- Does the Holy Roman Empire need a new institutional history? / Siegrid Westphal -- The Thirty Years War as the empire's constitutional crisis / Peter H. Wilson -- The permanent imperial diet in European context, 1663-1806 / Karl Härter -- The imperial cities and the politics of reformation / C. Scott Dixon -- Religious war and religious peace in the age of reformation / Franz Brendle and Anton Schindling -- The triumph of unity over dualism: Saxony and the imperial elections 1559-1619 / Dominic Phelps -- Re-Catholicization in the empire: strategies, problems, consequences / Trevor Johnson -- Catholic culture and rural society / Marc R. Forster -- Is there a social history of the Holy Roman Empire? / Susan C. Karant-Nunn -- German aristocracies and social discipline: noble hierarchies, the state, and the law in sixteenth-century Bavaria / Christian Wieland -- The formation of the imperial knighthood in Franconia: a comparative European perspective / Hillay Zmora -- A German nation? National and confessional identities before the Thirty Years War / Joachim Whaley -- The "historical consciousness" of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation (sixteenth to eighteenth century) / Markus Völkel -- Core and periphery: the Holy Roman Empire as a communication(s) universe / Wolfgang Behringer -- On the function of rituals in the Holy Roman Empire / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Call Number

JFD 14-2960

ISBN

• 9780199602971 (acid-free paper)
• 0199602972 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

• 2011282396
• 40019805255

OCLC

662407343

Title

The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 / edited by R.J.W. Evans, Michael Schaich and Peter H. Wilson.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Series

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Studies of the German Historical Institute London.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher description

Table of contents only

Added Author

Evans, R. J. W. (Robert John Weston), 1943-

Schaich, Michael.

Wilson, Peter H. (Peter Hamish)

German Historical Institute in London.

Other Standard Identifier

40019805255

Research Call Number

JFD 14-2960