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The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806 (Studies in European History)
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by Peter H. Wilson
Sales Rank: 199274
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Cover Type: Paperback with 112 pages
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan October 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0312223609
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312223601
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
Weighs: 5.8 ounces
Product 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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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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The 'book's' 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." is fine as far as it goes, except that: a) this is a massive overstatement b) it's a significant fraction of the length of the 'book' itself. I'll confess: caveat emptor. For $27 I had an expectation of a Toynbee or Norwich-sized volume on the History of the Holy Roman Empire. I did NOT expressly look at the length of the work, and had I done so I'm certain I'd have passed on this purchase. Saying this is 112 pages is massively overstating it - discounting the extensive bibiliography, there are only about seventy pages of actual text - roughly $0.40 PER PAGE. As the author states in his concluding paragraph: "The lack of a suitable framework to do justice to the Empire's diverse elements has proved a major stumbling block [to writing an all-encompassing history]; an obstacle this book has attempted to smooth out of the way." So there you have it. This is NOT a history, as the blurb purports. Rather, it is a discussion of the FRAMEWORK of topics around the HRE, accompanied by an extensive bibliography. This probably would be useful at a less-offensive price that was comparable to it's worth, perhaps $5 or $8. But to charge the current price for this book is heinous. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.
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