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Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire - Upper Germany, 1346-1521 (Hardcover)
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Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire - Upper Germany, 1346-1521 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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What was the Holy Roman Empire in the fourteenth to sixteenth
centuries? At the turning point between the medieval and early
modern periods, this vast Central European polity was the
continent's most politically fragmented. The imperial monarchs were
often weak and distant, while a diverse array of regional actors
played an autonomous role in political life. The Empire's obvious
differences compared with more centralized European kingdoms have
stimulated negative historical judgements and fraught debates,
which have found expression in recent decades in the concepts of
fractured 'territorial states' and a disjointed 'imperial
constitution'. Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman
Empire challenges these interpretations through a wide-ranging case
study of Upper Germany - the southern regions of modern-day Germany
plus Alsace, Switzerland, and western Austria - between 1346 and
1521. By examining the interactions of princes, prelates, nobles,
and towns comparatively, Associative Political Culture in the Holy
Roman Empire demonstrates that a range of actors and authorities
shared the same toolkit of technologies, rituals, judicial systems,
and concepts and configurations of government. Crucially, Upper
German elites all participated in leagues, alliances, and other
treaty-based associations. As frameworks for collective activity,
associations were a vital means of enabling and regulating warfare,
justice and arbitration, and even lordship and administration. On
the basis of this evidence, Associative Political Culture in the
Holy Roman Empire offers a new and more coherent depiction of the
Holy Roman Empire as a sprawling community of interdependent elites
who interacted within the framework of a shared political culture.
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