This text offers a collective exploration of aspects of cross-border and transnational interaction in the Holy Roman Empire.
Drawing on a wealth of specialist studies, Peter Wilson offers an alternative way of looking at the Empire, seeing it not as a failed monarchy or flawed forerunner of a later German nation-state, but on its own terms as a multi-layered ...
The volume presents an accessible summary of several decades of research on the Holy Roman Empire concentrating on its constitutional, religious, and social history between 1495 and 1806.
... J. P. Niederkorn, Die europäischen Mächte und der 'Lange Türkenkrieg' Kaiser Rudolfs II. (1593–1606) (Vienna ... Iranischchristliche Bündnispläne in der Zeit des “Langen Türkenkrieges”, 1593–1606', MIÖG, 104 (1996), 310–23. 34.
James Allan Vann, ed. The Old Reich: Essays on German Political Institutions 1495–1806. Brussels, 1974. Joachim Whaley. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, ... Peter H. Wilson. The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History.
An edited and annotated collection of translated documents on the Thirty Years War, providing students with accessible source material on this destructive conflict.
... popes and antipopes were elected by rival factions of cardinals, with various secular princes lending their support to one faction against another. The success of the Council of Constance in ending the schism briefly made conciliarism a ...
He endeavored to interpret and to evaluate the influence of a great political idea in medieval and modern history. The facts throughout the book were reduced to that minimum necessary to give coherence and cohesiveness to the subject.
"The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome.
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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire