Title: The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806
Description: Over the last forty years or so, research on the history of the 'Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation' (1495-1806) has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Once derided as a political non-entity, a chaotic assemblage of countless principalities and statelets that lacked coercive power and was stifled by encrusted structures and procedures, the Reich has been fully rehabilitated by more recent historiography. It is now being hailed by some as a model of peaceful conflict resolution in the centre of Europe which, in the long run, was able to defuse the religious tensions created by the confessional divide of the sixteenth century and to protect its smaller members against the voracious appetite of more powerful neighbours.
Subjects: Social conditions, Constitutional history, History, Holy roman empire, history
Places: Holy Roman Empire
Time periods: 1648-1804, 1517-1648, 17th century, 16th century, 1273-1517