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The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
eBook - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
ISBN/EAN: 9781845459925
Umbreit-Nr.: 1999174
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 346 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.10.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
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Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> The 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.</p>
- Kurztext
- The 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 &quote;world&quote; 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.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><strong>Jason Philip Coy</strong> is an Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. He has received a DAAD Research Grant and a Maria Sibylla Merian Fellowship for Postdoctoral Studies from the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is the author of<em>Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany</em> (2008).</p>