{"product_id":"the-holy-roman-empire-9780691179117","title":"The Holy Roman Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"First published in Germany as Das Heilige Reomische Reich Deutscher Nation: Vom Ende des Mittelalters bis 1806; Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, 2013\"--Title page verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, one of Germany’s leading historians, provides an elegant, succinct, and thought-provoking account of that most baffling of states, the Holy Roman Empire. Her distinctive and novel approach balances the recent, more positive assessment of the empire as a functioning political structure with an innovative interpretation of its conservative political culture. Readers are given a clear explanation of why it overcame some problems and not others, and why it ended in 1806.\"\u003cb\u003e—Peter H. Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eHeart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This important book advances a new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that promises to free analyses of the empire's inner workings from the burdens of contemporary political memory. Stollberg-Rilinger makes the imperial political system, endlessly complex though it was, accessible and comprehensible to a wider audience.\"\u003cb\u003e—David M. Luebke, author of \u003ci\u003eHometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403853701463,"sku":"9780691179117","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691179117.jpg?v=1730484724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-holy-roman-empire-9780691179117","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}