The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History
Hardcover
Paperback
- Price:
- $19.95/£16.99
- ISBN:
- Published (US):
- May 11, 2021
- Published (UK):
- Jun 1, 2021
- Pages:
- 184
- Size:
- 5.5 x 8.5 in.
- 2 b/w illus.
- Main_subject:
- History
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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.