The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History - Rilegato

Wilson, Peter H.

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ISBN 10: 1846143187 ISBN 13: 9781846143182

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2016

Riassunto

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016

'Hugely impressive... Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review

A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czech Republic, its relations with Italy, France and Poland dictated the course of countless wars - indeed European history as a whole makes no sense without it.

In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Empire worked. It is not a chronological history, but an attempt to convey to readers why it was so important and how it changed over its existence. The result is a tour de force - a book that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military power, about diplomacy and the nature of European civilization and about the legacy of the Empire, which has continued to haunt its offspring, from Imperial and Nazi Germany to the European Union.

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In his masterly study of the original "1,000-year Reich" (Hitler's was merely a grotesque caricature), the Oxford professor Peter H Wilson condenses a great deal of modern scholarship while wearing his learning lightly. (Daniel Johnson The Sunday Times)

Wilson's history represents the culmination of a lifetime of research and thought, and in its scope and depth of detail is an astonishing scholarly achievement. The author moves from the grand themes to detail with felicity. (Jonathan Steinberg The Spectator)

As vast and capacious as the empire it describes, his book is as definitive a study of its subject as one could hope to read...The Holy Roman Empire deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus. (Tom Holland The Telegraph)

He encourages us to reassess the history of Europe... Wilson makes the complex understandable. (Christopher Kissane The Guardian)

Peter Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to finish and on the basis of staggering erudition. He will not thank anyone for saying so, but it is also a book that is relevant to our own times. (Brendan Simms The Times)

In this immensely detailed and surely definitive history, [Wilson] shows how central Europe's bafflingly intricate system, which lasted almost 1,000 years, worked, and why it mattered. His narrative takes in everything from the coming of the Reformation to the Thirty Years' War, but Wilson is really interested in ideas, not personalities. His account of kings and emperors, archbishoprics and free cities is a demanding but rewarding intellectual treat, like contemplating a fabulously intricate clockwork mechanism. (The Sunday Times Books of the Year)

L'autore:

Peter H. Wilson is the author of the highly acclaimed Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War (2009). He is the Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford.

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• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1846143187
• ISBN 13: 9781846143182
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1008