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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire - Volume I: Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493-1648 (Hardcover)
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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire - Volume I: Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493-1648 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of Early Modern Europe
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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a new interpretation of
the development of German-speaking central Europe and the Holy
Roman Empire or German Reich, from the great reforms of 1495-1500
to its dissolution in 1806 after the turmoil of the French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Going against the notion that
this was a long period of decline, Joachim Whaley shows how
imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, notably the Reformation and
Thirty Years War, and assesses the impact of international
developments on the Reich. Central themes are the tension between
Habsburg aspirations to create a German monarchy and the desire of
the German princes and cities to maintain their traditional rights,
and how the Reich developed the functions of a state during this
period. The first single-author account of German history from the
Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's
study written in the 1950s, it also illuminates the development of
the German territories subordinate to the Reich. Whaley explores
the implications of the Reformation and subsequent religious reform
movements, both Protestant and Catholic, and the Enlightenment for
the government of both secular and ecclesiastical principalities,
the minor territories of counts and knights and the cities. The
Reich and the territories formed a coherent and workable system
and, as a polity, the Reich developed its own distinctive political
culture and traditions of German patriotism over the early modern
period. Whaley explains the development of the Holy Roman Empire as
an early modern polity and illuminates the evolution of the several
hundred German territories within it. He gives a rich account of
topics such as the Reformation, the Thirty Years War, Pietism and
baroque Catholicism, the Aufklarung or German Enlightenment and the
impact on the Empire and its territories of the French Revolution
and Napoleon. It includes consideration of language, cultural
aspects and religious and intellectual movements. Germany and the
Holy Roman Empire engages with all the major debates among both
German and English-speaking historians about early modern German
history over the last sixty years and offers a striking new
interpretation of this important period. Volume I extends from the
late fifteenth century through to the Thirty Years War.
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