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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wilson, Peter Hamish
Titre(s) : Heart of Europe [Texte imprimé] : a history of the Holy Roman Empire / Peter H. Wilson
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : xii, 941 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Comprend : Part I. Ideal ; Two Swords ; Christendom ; Sovereignty ; Part II. Belonging
; Lands ; Identities ; Nation ; Part III. Governance ; Kingship ; Territory
; Dynasty ; Part IV. Society ; Authority ; Association ; Justice ; Afterlife.
Note(s) : "First published in the United Kingdom as The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years
of Europe's History by Penguin Books Ltd. 2016."--Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical
references and index
"The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet
this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled
the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire.
Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe
better than the histories of individual nation-states. And its legacy can be seen
today in debates over the nature of the European Union. Heart of Europe traces the
Empire from its origins within Charlemagne's kingdom in 800 to its demise in 1806.
By the mid-tenth century its core rested in the German kingdom, and ultimately its
territory stretched from France and Denmark to Italy and Poland. Yet the Empire remained
stubbornly abstract, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture. The
source of its continuity and legitimacy was the ideal of a unified Christian civilization,
but this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope over supremacy--the
nadir being the sack of Rome in 1527 that killed 147 Vatican soldiers. Though the
title of Holy Roman Emperor retained prestige, rising states such as Austria and Prussia
wielded power in a way the Empire could not. While it gradually lost the flexibility
to cope with political, economic, and social changes, the Empire was far from being
in crisis until the onslaught of the French revolutionary wars, when a crushing defeat
by Napoleon at Austerlitz compelled Francis II to dissolve his realm."--Provided by
publisher
Sujet(s) : Politique et gouvernement -- Saint Empire romain germanique
Saint Empire romain germanique -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674058095 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674058097 (cloth) (alk. paper)
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