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The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806
Author(s): Peter H. Wilson (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 0312223609
- ISBN-13: 9780312223601
Book Description
The Holy Roman Empire lasted for over a millennium, yet its development and institutions are still commonly dismissed as largely irrelevant to broader historical issues. Recent scholarship challenges this view but until now has failed to provide a convincing interpretation of the political structure which provided the framework within which such major events as the Reformation and the Thirty Years War developed. 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 structure combining monarchical, hierarchical and federal elements. Key stages in the Empire’s development are explained within the context of wider European history.
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About the Author
Peter H. Wilson is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Sunderland.
