Volume 1: From Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia; Volume 2: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Empire. In the best Anglo-Saxon tradition, Joachim Whaley does not write an imperial history, but rather a monumental overall account of the period between the Middle Ages and Napoleon I, taking into account the institutional framework of the German states: the Old Empire. It is a detailed, thematically broad and comprehensive passage through 300 years of German history, taking into account intellectual and religious history as well as the "Little Ice Age", the witch hunts or problems and innovations in the government and administration of the individual imperial territories. For him, the early modern period is by no means a period of decline. Rather, Whaley impressively shows all the suppleness of the empire's construction and its great history.
Group
Books
State
Second Hand
Author
Whaley, Joachim
Title
Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation. 2 Bände
Details
4 sw maps on the preliminaries and postscripts. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern 2014. together 1682 pp.