The Holy Roman Empire : 1495 - 1806 : [ ... conference commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the end of the Old Reich, held at New College, Oxford, from 30 August to 2 September 2006]
Over the last forty years or so, research on the history of the 'Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation' (1495-1806) has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Once derided as a political non-entity, a chaotic assemblage of countless principalities and statelets that lacked coercive p...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press,
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Studies of the German Historical Institute London
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| Schlagworte: | Constitutional history Deutschland Geschichte 1495-1806 |
| Umfang: | XI, 397 S. |
| Zusammenfassung: | Over the last forty years or so, research on the history of the 'Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation' (1495-1806) has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Once derided as a political non-entity, a chaotic assemblage of countless principalities and statelets that lacked coercive power and was stifled by encrusted structures and procedures, the Reich has been fully rehabilitated by more recent historiography. It is now being hailed by some as a model of peaceful conflict resolution in the centre of Europe which, in the long run, was able to defuse the religious tensions created by the confessional divide of the sixteenth century and to protect its smaller members against the voracious appetite of more powerful neighbours Over the last forty years or so, research on the history of the 'Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation' (1495-1806) has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Once derided as a political non-entity, a chaotic assemblage of countless principalities and statelets that lacked coercive power and was stifled by encrusted structures and procedures, the Reich has been fully rehabilitated by more recent historiography. It is now being hailed by some as a model of peaceful conflict resolution in the centre of Europe which, in the long run, was able to defuse the religious tensions created by the confessional divide of the sixteenth century and to protect its smaller members against the voracious appetite of more powerful neighbours |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 397 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780199602971 0199602972 |