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Duncan Hardy's first book is a breath of fresh air and an extraordinary contribution to scholarship. It is nothing short of a comprehensive reconceptualization of the socio-political framework of the late medieval Holy Roman Empire, constructed from the evidence of practice mined in the archives, not the statements of theory coupled to the structural models of an imperial system imposed by the onerous tradition of German constitutional history. Premis
What was the Holy Roman Empire in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries? At the turning point between the medieval and early modern periods, this vast Central European polity was the continent's most politically fragmented. The imperial monarchs were often weak and distant, while a diverse array of regional actors played an autonomous role in political life. The Empire's obvious differences compared with more centralized European kingdoms have stimulated negative historical judgements and fraught debates, which have found expression in recent decades in the concepts of fractured "territorial states" and a disjointed "imperial constitution". Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire challenges these interpretations through a wide-ranging case study of Upper Germany-the southern regions of modern-day Germany plus Alsace, Switzerland, and western Austria-between 1346 and 1521. By examining the interactions of princes, prelates, nobles, and towns comparatively, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire demonstrates that a range of actors and authorities shared the same toolkit of technologies, rituals, judicial systems, and concepts and configurations of government. Crucially, Upper German elites all participated in leagues, alliances, and other treaty-based associations. As frameworks for collective activity, associations were a vital means of enabling and regulating warfare, justice and arbitration, and even lordship and administration. On the basis of this evidence, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire offers a new and more coherent depiction of the Holy Roman Empire as a sprawling community of interdependent elites who interacted within the framework of a shared political culture. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)943.026History and Geography Europe Germany and central Europe Historical periods of Germany Empire before the reformation Houses of Hapsburg, Luxemburg, etc. 1273-1378LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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