The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered

The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
ISBN-10
184545992X
ISBN-13
9781845459925
Category
History
Pages
346
Language
English
Published
2010-10-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Jason Philip Coy, Benjamin Marschke, David Warren Sabean

Description

The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their research reveals the continual importance of the Empire as a stage (and audience) for symbolic performance and communication; as a well utilized problem-solving and conflict-resolving supra-governmental institution; and as an imagined political, religious, and cultural "world" for contemporaries. This volume by leading scholars offers a dramatic reappraisal of politics, religion, and culture and also represents a major revision of the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period.

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