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The emperor's old clothes : constitutional history and the symbolic language of the Holy Roman Empire
For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together. What determined the rules (and whether they were followed) depended on complex symbolic-ritual actions. By examining key moments in the political history of the Empire, the author shows that it was a vocabulary of symbols, not the actual written laws, that formed a political language indispensable in maintaining the common order.
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The Holy Roman Empire : a very short introduction
\"Joachim Whaley outlines the fascinating thousand-year history of the Holy Roman Empire. Throughout its lifetime, the empire's growth and history was shaped by the major developments in Europe, from the Reformation, to the Thirty Years War, to the French revolutionary wars, which led to Napoleon destroying the empire in 1806. Joachim Whaley analyzes the empire's crucial impact and role in the history of European power and politics, and shows that there has never been a more durable political system in German history.\"-- Publisher's description.
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Portraits of Empires
In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made
their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the
German House, in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn,
subjects of the emperor found food, wine, shelter, and good
company-and left an incredible collection of albums filled with
images, messages, decorated papers, and more.
Portraits of Empires offers a complete account of this
early form of social media, which had a profound impact on later
European iconography. Revealing a vibrant transimperial culture as
viewed from all walks of life-Muslim and Christian, noble and
servant, scholar and stable boy-the pocket-sized albums containing
these curiosities have never been fully connected to the abundant
archival records on the German House and its residents. Robyn Dora
Radway not only introduces these objects, the people who filled
their pages, and the house at the center of their creation, but she
also presents several arguments regarding chronologies of exchange,
workshop practices, the curation of social networks and visual
collections based on status, and the purposes of these highly
individualized material portraits.
Featuring 162 fascinating color images, Portraits of
Empires reconstructs the world of Habsburg subjects living in
Ottoman Constantinople using a rich and distinctive set of objects
to raise questions about imperial belonging and the artistic
practices used to articulate it.
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The Holy Roman Empire : a short history
A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believe.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. This magisterial study re-examines Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation. It analyses the narrative representations of Charlemagne produced after his death, and thereafter focuses on the evidence from Charlemagne's lifetime concerning the creation of the Carolingian dynasty and the growth of the kingdom, the court and the royal household, communications and identities in the Frankish realm in the context of government, and Charlemagne's religious and cultural strategies. The book offers a critical examination of the contemporary sources and in so doing transforms our understanding of the development of the Carolingian empire, the formation of Carolingian political identity, and the astonishing changes effected throughout Charlemagne's forty-six year period of rule. This is a major contribution to Carolingian history which will be essential reading for anyone interested in the medieval past. Rosamond McKitterick has also received the 2010 Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for History for her research into the Carolingians.
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Imperial villages : cultures of political freedom in the German lands, c. 1300-1800
In this first book-length study of imperial villages, Beat Kümin provides unprecedented insights into the micro-political cultures of rural communities and popular desires for local autonomy in the pre-modern German lands.
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Charlemagne and Louis the Pious : the lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer
Carolingian historical texts have long stood at the base of our modern knowledge about the eighth and ninth centuries. The ninth century gave birth to a new revival of secular biography, which has come to be recognized as one of the brightest bands in the spectrum of Carolingian historical writing. This collection brings together, for the first time in one volume, the five royal/imperial biographies written during the Carolingian period.
Thomas F. X. Noble's new English translations of these five important texts—Einhard's Life of Emperor Charles, Notker's Deeds of Charles the Great, Ermoldus Nigellus's Poem in Honor of Louis, Thegan's Deeds of Emperor Louis, and the Life of Louis by \"the Astronomer\"—are each accompanied by a short introduction and a note on \"Essential Reading.\" Offering details on matters of style, sources used by the author, and the influence, if any, exerted by the text, Noble provides a context for each translation without compromising the author's intended voice. By \"reuniting\" these five essential medieval texts in an English translation, this volume makes these voices accessible to scholars and non-experts alike throughout the Anglophone world.
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