The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered

Jason Philip Coy, Benjamin Marschke, David Warren Sabean (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2010
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-759-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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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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, 1500–1800

Alexander Schlaak

Chapter 3. Princes’ Power, Aristocratic Norms, and Personal Eccentricities: Le Caractère Bizarre of Frederick William I of Prussia (1713–1740)

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 (1550–1800)

Patrick Oelze

Chapter 10. Conflict and Consensus around German Princes’ Unequal Marriages: Prince’s Autonomy, Emperor’s 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, 1680–1794

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

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2010
Reihe/Serie	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	667 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84545-759-5 / 1845457595
ISBN-13	978-1-84545-759-4 / 9781845457594
Zustand	Neuware