Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Volume I: Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493-1648
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199688821
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages752 pages
- Size 235x158x40 mm
- Weight 1038 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black and white maps 0
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Short description:
In the first single-author account of German history from the Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's study written in the 1950s, Dr Whaley provides a full account of the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Volume I extends from Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia.
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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that this was a long period of decline, and shows instead how imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, notably the Reformation and Thirty Years War. The impact of international developments on the Reich is also examined.
The first volume begins with an account of the reforms of the reign of Maximilian I and concludes with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. It offers a new interpretation of the Reformation, the Peasants' War, the Schmalkaldic War and the Peace of Augsburg, and of the post-Reformation development of Protestantism and Catholicism. The German policy successfully resisted the ambitions of Charles V and the repeated onslaughtsof both the Ottomans and the French, and it remained stable in the face of the French religious wars and the Dutch Revolt. The volume concludes with an analysis of the Thirty Years War as an essentially German constitutional conflict, triggered by the problems of the Habsburg dynasty and prolonged by the interventions of foreign powers. The Peace of Westphalia, which ended the conflict, both reflected the development of the German polity since the late fifteenth century and created teh framework for its development over the next hundred and fifty years.
Review from previous edition
scholars ... will concur in their debt to Whaley's magnum opus ... [it] stands apart as the most authoritative account of the early modern empire
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Narratives of Early Modern German History
I. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in 1500
Origins and Frontiers
The Reich as a Polity
Fragmented Territories
The Reich and the German Nation
II. The Reform of the Reich and the Church c. 1490-1519
The Reformation Era in German history
The Reich under Maximilian I
Reich, Papacy, and Reichskirche
Religious Renewal and the Laity
Humanism in the Reich
The 'Print Revolution' and the Public Sphere
Economic Landscapes, Communities, and their Grievances
Martin Luther and the 'Luther affair' 1517-1519
III. Charles V and the Challenge of the Reformation in the 1520s
The Reich During the First Decade of Charles V
Luther and Imperial Politics, 1519-1526
Luther and the German Reform Movement
Alternative Reformations and the Dominance of Lutheranism
The Knights' War, 1522-1523
The Peasants' War, 1525
Reformation in the Cities
IV. Mastering the Reformation c. 1526-1555
The Emergence of Protestant Territories
The Persistence of Catholicism
Charles V, Ferdinand, and the Reich in Europe
The Establishment of Protestantism, 1526-1530
The Schmalkaldic League, its Counterparts, and the Politics of the Reich, 1530-1541
Charles V as 'Lord of Germany', 1541-1548
The Triumph of the Reich, 1548-1555
V. Managing the Peace 1555-1618
Contours of the 'Confessional Age'
Emperors, Imperial Officials, and Estates after the Peace of Augsburg
Constitutional developments after 1555: Reichstag, Kreise, Courts, and Legislation
The Reich in Europe
Managing the Domestic Peace, 1555-c.1585
The Consensus Falters, c. 1585-1603
Paralysis, 1603-1614
Problems of the Habsburg Dynasty
The Reich in the Reign of Emperor Matthias, 1612-1619
The Crisis of the Habsburg lands
Imperial Public Law and the Struggle over the Imperial Constitution
Irenicism and Patriotism on the Eve of War
VII. The German Territories and Cities after 1555
Problems of Interpretation
A Benign Environment?
State Formation?
Domestic Order and Defence
Confessionalization?
Finance, Taxation, and Estates
The Resurgence of the Courts
The Imperial Cities
Responding to Crises
VII. The Thirty Years War 1618-1648
The Thirty Years War in German History
What Kind of Conflict?
The Reconquest of Austria and Bohemia, 1618-1623
Ferdinand Victorious
Denmark and the War for the Reich, 1623-1629
What Kind of Reich? Sweden and the Defence of German Liberties, 1630-1635
Wallenstein and After
France, Sweden, and the German Way, 1635-1648
The Peace of Westphalia
The Impact of the War on German Society
The Thirty Years War and the German Polity
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
