The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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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 modelof 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. Some historians even draw lessonsfrom the history of the Holy Roman Empire for our present. The multi-layered, federal structure of the old Empire and its system of collective decision-making have been held up as a model for a peace-loving, multi-ethnic Europe, a European Union avant la lettre. Other historians have described the Reich as the first German nation-state, a political configuration based not on power and expansion, but on rights and liberties, the rule of law and a structural lack of capacityfor aggression. This volume takes stock of this research, particularly in the critical areas of the Empire's constitutional, religious and social history. A notable feature is the presentation of several decades of research in concise, accessible essays by continental scholars, much of it appearing in English for thefirst time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806 “
1. Introduction; PART I. THE CONSTITUTION HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE; 2. The Old Reich: A Federation or a State of the German Nation?; 3. The Old Reich: The State and Nation of the Germans; 4. The Role of the Imperial Auli Council in the Constitutional Structure of the Holy Roman Empire; 5. Does the Holy Roman Empire Need a New Institutional History?; 6. The Thirty Years War as the Empire's Constitutional Crisis; 7. The Permanent Imperial Diet in European Context, 1663-1806; PART II. THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE; 8. The Imperial Cities and the Politics of Reformation; 9. Religious War and Religious Peace in the Age of Reformation; 10. The Triumph of Unity over Dualism: Saxony and the Imperial Elections 1559-1619; 11. Re-Catholicization in the Empire: Strategies, Problems, Consequences; 12. Catholic Culture and Rural Society; PART III. THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE; 13. Is there a Social History of the Holy Roman Empire?; 14. German Aristocracies and Social Discipline: Noble Hierarchies, the State, and the Law in Sixteenth-Century Bavaria; 15. The Formation of the Imperial Knighthood in Franconia: A Comparative European Perspective; 16. A German Nation? National and Confessional Identities before the Thirty Years War; 17. The 'Historical Consciousness' of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century); 18. The Holy Roman Empire as a Communication(s) Universe; 19. On the Function of Rituals in the Holy Roman Empire
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2011, 397 Seiten, Maße: 21,8 x 14,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Evans, R. J. W.; Schaich, Michael; Wilson, Peter H.
- Herausgegeben: R. J. W. Evans, Michael Schaich, Peter H. , Professor Wilson
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199602972
- ISBN-13: 9780199602971
Sprache:
Englisch
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This is a book which deserves our careful attention. A collection of this sort lends itself to being treated primarily as a guide to research. It serves that role admirably, but it is much more ... While the individual essays are of great value, the whole is even more provocative and provides ample proof that the time is ripe for a new history of the Holy Roman Empire. Research, revealing in the process some of the main areas of controversy. Wm. Bradford Smith, English Historical Review A 'handbook' for the history of the Holy Roman Empire from 1495-1806, an aid to orientation which reminds historians of where future research should go. Willi Eisele, Arbeitsgemeinschaft historischer Forschungseinrichtungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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