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Associative political culture in the Holy Roman Empire :

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0191866180

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0192562169

(Number (ISBN

9780191866180

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9780192562166

Erroneous ISBN

0198827253

Erroneous ISBN

9780198827252

Title Proper

Associative political culture in the Holy Roman Empire :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Upper Germany, 1346-1521 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Duncan Hardy.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps

Series Title

Oxford historical monographs

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.

Text of Note

Part I : Shared and interconnective structures and practices -- Part II : Associations and associative political culture -- Part III : Associative political culture in action: four case studies.

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What was the Holy Roman Empire in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries? At the turning point between the medieval and early modern periods, this vast Central European polity was the continent's most politically fragmented. The imperial monarchs were often weak and distant, while a diverse array of regional actors played an autonomous role in political life. The Empire's obvious differences compared with more centralized European kingdoms have stimulated negative historical judgements and fraught debates, which have found expression in recent decades in the concepts of fractured 'territorial states' and a disjointed 'imperial constitution'. This book challenges these interpretations through a wide-ranging case study of Upper Germany - the southern regions of modern-day Germany plus Alsace, Switzerland, and western Austria - between 1346 and 1521. It demonstrates that a range of actors and authorities shared the same toolkit of technologies, rituals, judicial systems, and concepts and configurations of government. Upper German elites all participated in leagues, alliances, and other treaty-based associations. As frameworks for collective activity, associations were a vital means of enabling and regulating warfare, justice and arbitration, and even lordship and administration. On the basis of this evidence, the book offers a new depiction of the Holy Roman Empire as a sprawling community of interdependent elites who interacted within the framework of a shared political culture.

Title

Associative political culture in the Holy Roman Empire.

International Standard Book Number

9780198827252

Political culture-- Europe-- History-- To 1500.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Germany.

Manners and customs.

Political culture.

Politics and government.

Holy Roman Empire, History, 1273-1517.

Holy Roman Empire, Politics and government.

Holy Roman Empire, Social life and customs.

Europe, Holy Roman Empire.

Europe.

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Hardy, Duncan,1988-

Date of Transaction

20200822092701.0

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[Book]

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