Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

The Emperor's Old Clothes

Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Constitutional history as history of rituals. History of German political culture and its changes 1500-1800. Symbolic communication in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Micro-historical perspective on early modern political history.

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Produktdetails

• Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781789207989
• ISBN-10: 1789207983
• Artikelnr.: 58590972

Autorenporträt

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study and Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Münster. She is the author of Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation: Vom Ende des Mittelalters bis 1806 (2009), Europa im Jahrhundert der Aufklärung (2000), and Rituale (2013). Her most recent book is Maria Theresia: Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit. Eine Biographie (C.H. Beck, Munich 2017); forthcoming English translation: Maria Theresa: The Empress in Her Time. A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2020). In 2005 she received the prestigious Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation, in 2003 the Prize of the Historical Collegium of the Bavarian Academy of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Creation and Depiction of the Empire: Worms, 1495
Chapter 2. Cleavage of the Sacral Community: Augsburg, 1530
Chapter 3. More Strife than Ever Before: Regensburg, 1653/54
Chapter 4. Parallel Worlds: Frankfurt-Regensburg-Vienna, 1764/65
Conclusion: The Symbolic Logic of the Empire
Bibliography
Index