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.
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a meticulous reappraisal of the Holy Roman Empire in its early modern period. Informed and informative, "The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered" is a seminal work and strongly recommended for academic library European History reference collections in general, and Holy Roman Empire Studies supplemental reading lists in particular. · Library Bookwatch
There is a strong sense of Aufbruchstimmung about this book, that is a readiness to explore pastures new, both in terms of launching an interdisciplinary publication series and in presenting an Anglophone audience with a survey of new departures in the historiography of German-speaking Europe. The result is a very welcome collection which will be useful for a range of purposes, be it general orientation about an innovative field of scholarship, framing new research questions in late medieval and early modern studies or adding fresh materials to courses for advanced students. · English Historical Review
"This is a lively and stimulating collection which many will wish to read. · German Studies Review
If the editors of Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association were looking for an impressive collection with which to lead off their new series, they certainly succeeded admirably in choosing The Holy Roman Empire, ReconsideredIn sum, each individual paper in this collection repays careful reading. Taken as a whole, they reveal the vitality and variety of contemporary scholarship on the Holy Roman Empire. · Austrian History Yearbook
"Over the last two decades historians have promoted the Holy Roman Empire from a creaking fossil ready for historys ax to a relatively effective government of a decentralized, highly diverse polity. This well-edited volume by a distinguished international corps of specialists offers the most current views on political Germany from around 1500 to around 1800. The perspectives range between two views: the Empire as the forerunner of modern German states; the Empire as an example of a typically premodern political culture. Readers who know only what textbooks say about Germany before 1800, are in for a surprise." · Thomas A. Brady Jr., University of California, Berkeley
"Whereas a revised view of the Empire is now part of the historiography in Germany it is not yet widely known among Anglo-American scholars. [ O]ne of the important contributions of [ this volume] is that it makes some of these revisionist approaches to the Old Empire accessible...I know of no other work that offers such a rich spectrum of approaches to the Old Empire." · Thomas Robisheaux, Duke University
List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Volume Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Holy Roman Empire in History and Historiography
Jason Coy
SECTION I: PRESENCE, PERFORMANCE, AND TEXT
Chapter
1. Discontinuities: Political Transformation, Media Change, and the
City in the Holy Roman Empire from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz
Chapter
2. Overloaded Interaction: Effects of the Growing Use of Writing in
German Imperial Cities, 15001800
Alexander Schlaak
Chapter
3. Princes Power, Aristocratic Norms, and Personal Eccentricities:
Le Caractčre Bizarre of Frederick William I of Prussia (17131740)
Benjamin Marschke
SECTION II: SYMBOLIC MEANING, IDENTITY, AND MEMORY
Chapter
4. The Illuminated Reich: Memory, Crisis, and the Visibility of
Monarchy in Late Medieval Germany
Len Scales
Chapter
5. The Production of Knowledge about Confessions: Witnesses and
their Testimonies about Normative Years in and after the Thirty Years War
Ralf-Peter Fuchs
Chapter
6. Staging Individual Rank and Corporate Identity: Pre-Modern
Nobilities in Provincial Politics
Elizabeth Harding
7. The Importance of Being Seated: Ceremonial Conflict in Territorial Diets
Tim Neu
SECTION III: CEREMONY, PROCEDURE, AND LEGITIMATION
Chapter
8. Ceremony and Dissent: Religion, Procedural Conflicts, and the
Fiction of Consensus in Seventeenth-Century Germany
David M. Luebke
Chapter
9. Contested Bodies: Schwäbisch Hall and its Neighbors in Conflicts
Regarding High Jurisdiction (15501800)
Patrick Oelze
Chapter
10. Conflict and Consensus around German Princes Unequal Marriages:
Princes Autonomy, Emperors Intervention, and the Juridification of Dynastic
Politics
Michael Sikora
Chapter
11. Power and Good Governance: The Removal of Ruling Princes in the
Holy Roman Empire, 16801794
Werner Trossbach
SECTION IV: IMPERIAL INSTITUTIONS, CONFESSION, AND POWER RELATIONS
Chapter
12. Marital Affairs as a Public Matter within the Holy Roman Empire:
The Case of Duke Ulrich and Duchess Sabine of Württemberg at the Beginning of
the Sixteenth Century
Michaela Hohkamp
Chapter
13. The Corpus Evangelicorum: A Culturalist Perspective on its
Procedure in the Eighteenth-Century Holy Roman Empire
Andreas Kalipke
Chapter
14. Gallican Longings: Church and Nation in Eighteenth-Century
Germany
Michael Printy
Conclusion: New Directions in the Study of the Holy Roman Empire - A
Cultural Approach
André Krischer
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Jason Philip Coy 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 Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (2008).
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