Holy Roman Empire: A Short History

Title: Holy Roman Empire: A Short History
Author: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
History: 1701090
ISBN: 9780691217314
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 180
Section: History | Europe | Austria & Hungary
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From acclaimed historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of Europe

The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor, and would endure until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides a concise history of the empire, presenting an interpretation of its unique political culture and remarkably durable institutions. In a narrative spanning three turbulent centuries, Stollberg-Rilinger shows how it was a political body unlike any other, bound together by personal loyalty and reciprocity, tradition and shared purpose, and constantly reenacted by solemn rituals.