Contributions

  • German Historical Institute in London - Contributor

Publication

2011 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

99,250 words, Guess

Page Count

397 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDD175 .H622 2011

Description

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies of the German Historical Institute London

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