Edited by David Warren Sabean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09), Jason Philip Coy, and Benjamin Marschke
New York: Berghahn Books, 2010
From the publisher’s description:
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.
Subjects
History / Holy Roman Empire / European History / Cultural History / Early Modern Period /Sabean, David Warren (NHC Fellow, 2008–09), ed. The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered. Edited by David Warren Sabean, Jason Philip Coy, and Benjamin Marschke. Spektrum. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.