Joachim Whaley (Professor of German History and University Thought

The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This Very Short Introduction explores the thousand-year history of the Holy Roman Empire, from its origins in 800 as Charlemagne's Frankish kingdom, to its destruction by Napoleon. Throughout, Joachim Whaley analyses the empire's crucial impact and role in the history of European power and politics.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2018
• Abmessung: 172mm x 111mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 156g
• ISBN-13: 9780198748762
• ISBN-10: 0198748760
• Artikelnr.: 51382945

Autorenporträt

Joachim Whaley was brought up bilingually in English and German. He studied History at Christ's College, Cambridge, has taught at Cambridge since 1976, and is currently a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He is the author of several books on religious toleration in early modern Germany and on the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period, all of which have been translated into German. He has written numerous articles on the religious and intellectual history of the German lands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - What was the Holy Roman Empire?
1: Roman Empire and German Kingdom: From Charlemagne to the Ottonians
2: The High Medieval Empire: From the Salians to the Hohenstaufen
3: The Later Medieval Empire: The emergence of the Habsburgs
4: The Early Modern Empire (1): From Maximilian I to the Thirty Years War
5: The Early Modern Empire (2): From the Peace of Westphalia to 1806
Conclusion: The Legacy of the Holy Roman Empire
Maps
Chronology
Further Reading
Index