The Emperor's Old Clothes: Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire

Stollberg-rilinger, Barabara

ISBN 10: 1782388052 ISBN 13: 9781782388050

Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2015

Riassunto

For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together. What determined the rules (and whether they were followed) depended on complex symbolic-ritual actions. By examining key moments in the political history of the Empire, the author shows that it was a vocabulary of symbols, not the actual written laws, that formed a political language indispensable in maintaining the common order.

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Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is Professor and Chair 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). 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.

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is Professor and Chair 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). 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782388052
• ISBN 13: 9781782388050
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero di pagine: 332
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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