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The Holy Roman Empire - A Short History (Hardcover)
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A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it
was not a failed state as many historians believe The 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.
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