{"product_id":"the-holy-roman-empire-reconsidered-9781845457594","title":"The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003cem\u003ea meticulous reappraisal of the Holy Roman Empire in its early modern period. Informed and informative, \"\u003c\/em\u003eThe Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered\u003cem\u003e\" is a seminal work and strongly recommended for academic library European History reference collections in general, and Holy Roman Empire Studies supplemental reading lists in particular.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLibrary Bookwatch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThere is a strong sense of \u003c\/em\u003eAufbruchstimmung \u003cem\u003eabout this book, that is a readiness to explore pastures new, both in terms of launching an interdisciplinary publication series and in presenting an Anglophone audience with a survey of new departures in the historiography of German-speaking Europe. The result is a very welcome collection which will be useful for a range of purposes, be it general orientation about an innovative field of scholarship, framing new research questions in late medieval and early modern studies or adding fresh materials to courses for advanced students.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is a lively and stimulating collection which many will wish to read.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerman Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eIf the editors of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ewere looking for an impressive collection with which to lead off their new series, they certainly succeeded admirably in choosing \u003c\/em\u003eThe Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered\u003cem\u003e…In sum, each individual paper in this collection repays careful reading. Taken as a whole, they reveal the vitality and variety of contemporary scholarship on the Holy Roman Empire\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustrian History Yearbook\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Over the last two decades historians have promoted the Holy Roman Empire from a creaking fossil ready for history’s ax to a relatively effective government of a decentralized, highly diverse polity. This well-edited volume by a distinguished international corps of specialists offers the most current views on political Germany from around 1500 to around 1800. The perspectives range between two views: the Empire as the forerunner of modern German states; the Empire as an example of a typically premodern political culture. Readers who know only what textbooks say about Germany before 1800, are in for a surprise.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Thomas A. Brady Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Whereas a revised view of the Empire is now part of the historiography in Germany it is not yet widely known among Anglo-American scholars. [O]ne of the important contributions of [this volume] is that it makes some of these revisionist approaches to the Old Empire accessible...I know of no other work that offers such a rich spectrum of approaches to the Old Empire.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Thomas Robisheaux\u003c\/b\u003e, Duke University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tSeries Preface\u003cbr\u003e \tVolume Preface\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Holy Roman Empire in History and Historiography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJason Coy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION I: PRESENCE, PERFORMANCE, AND TEXT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Discontinuities: Political Transformation, Media Change, and the City in the Holy Roman Empire from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePhilip Hoffmann-Rehnitz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Overloaded Interaction: Effects of the Growing Use of Writing in German Imperial Cities, 1500–1800\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlexander Schlaak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Princes’ Power, Aristocratic Norms, and Personal Eccentricities: Le Caractère Bizarre of Frederick William I of Prussia (1713–1740)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBenjamin Marschke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION II: SYMBOLIC MEANING, IDENTITY, AND MEMORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Illuminated Reich: Memory, Crisis, and the Visibility of Monarchy in Late Medieval Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLen Scales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Production of Knowledge about Confessions: Witnesses and their Testimonies about Normative Years in and after the Thirty Years’ War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRalf-Peter Fuchs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Staging Individual Rank and Corporate Identity: Pre-Modern Nobilities in Provincial Politics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElizabeth Harding\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t7. The Importance of Being Seated: Ceremonial Conflict in Territorial Diets\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTim Neu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION III: CEREMONY, PROCEDURE, AND LEGITIMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ceremony and Dissent: Religion, Procedural Conflicts, and the “Fiction of Consensus” in Seventeenth-Century Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid M. Luebke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Contested Bodies: Schwäbisch Hall and its Neighbors in Conflicts Regarding High Jurisdiction (1550–1800)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePatrick Oelze\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Conflict and Consensus around German Princes’ Unequal Marriages: Prince’s Autonomy, Emperor’s Intervention, and the Juridification of Dynastic Politics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Sikora\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Power and Good Governance: The Removal of Ruling Princes in the Holy Roman Empire, 1680–1794\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWerner Trossbach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION IV: IMPERIAL INSTITUTIONS, CONFESSION, AND POWER RELATIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Marital Affairs as a Public Matter within the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Duke Ulrich and Duchess Sabine of Württemberg at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichaela Hohkamp\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Corpus Evangelicorum: A Culturalist Perspective on its Procedure in the Eighteenth-Century Holy Roman Empire\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndreas Kalipke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eGallican Longings: Church and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Printy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e New Directions in the Study of the Holy Roman Empire - A Cultural Approach\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndré Krischer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042986852695,"sku":"9781845457594","price":101.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845457594.jpg?v=1750956535","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-holy-roman-empire-reconsidered-9781845457594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}