The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806

Content

• Frontmatter

  p. I

• Foreword

  p. V

  Gestrich, Andreas

• Contents

  p. VIIII

• Introduction

  p. 1

  Wilson, Peter H.; Schaich, Michael

• The Old Reich : A Federation or Hierarchical System?

  p. 27

  Aretin, Karl Otmar von

• The Old Reich : The State and Nation of the Germans

  p. 43

  Schmidt, Georg

• The Role of the Imperial Aulic Council in the Constitutional Structure of the Holy Roman Empire

  p. 63

  Auer, Leopold

• Does the Holy Roman Empire Need a New Institutional History?

  p. 77

  Westphal, Siegrid

• The Thirty Years War as the Empire's Constitutional Crisis

  p. 95

  Wilson, Peter H.

• The Permanent Imperial Diet in European Context, 1663-1806

  p. 115

  Härter, Karl

• The Imperial Cities and the Politics of Reformation

  p. 139

  Dixon, C. Scott

• Religious War and Religious Peace in the Age of Reformation

  p. 165

  Brendle, Franz; Schindling, Anton

• The Triumph of Unity over Dualism : Saxony and the Imperial Elections 1559-1619

  p. 183

  Phelps, Dominic

• Re-Catholicization in the Empire : Strategies, Problems, Consequences

  p. 203

  Johnson, Trevor

• Catholic Culture and Rural Society

  p. 223

  Forster, Marc R.

• Is There a Social History of the Holy Roman Empire?

  p. 245

  Karant-Nunn, Susan C.

• German Aristocracies and Social Discipline : Noble Hierarchies, the State, and the Law in Sixteenth-Century Bavaria

  p. 263

  Wieland, Christian

• The Formation of the Imperial Knighthood in Franconia : A Comparative European Perspective

  p. 283

  Zmora, Hillay

• A German Nation? : National and Confessional Identities before the Thirty Years War

  p. 303

  Whaley, Joachim

• The 'Historical Consciousness' of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century)

  p. 323

  Völkel, Markus

• Core and Periphery : The Holy Roman Empire as a Communication(s) Universe

  p. 347

  Behringer, Wolfgang

• On the Function of Rituals in the Holy Roman Empire

  p. 359

  Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara

• Notes on Contributors and Editors

  p. 375

• Index

  p. 381