..., territorial autonomy was not only consistent with the complex hierarchy of the Holy Roman Empire but was fundamental to preserving it. To understand the role that territorial rights played in the empire, it is necessary to examine how they emerged from compromises between the states and empire, which led...

... both kinds (with consecrated bread and wine) offered a short-lived hope of religious compromise. choirbook presentation manuscript musical diplomacy confessionalization Holy Roman Empire Benedictines Regensburg Augsburg Orlande de Lassus The repertory of the Regensburg choirbook further...

...Oliver Volckart General histories of the Holy Roman Empire in the age of the Reformation draw a picture of a ‘bewildering variation of economic and social conditions, legal boundaries, and jurisdictions, spiritual and temporal’. ³⁶ In fact, diversity began with the status of its...

... Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract The electoral capitulations of the Old German Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, were formulated by the electors and the elected Emperors had to commit themselves to their observance...

... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Ultimately, the idea of the Holy Roman Empire as a system of Public Peace offers a clear answer to the question of what held the Empire together. At the same time, however, it also shows...

... nobility princes Holy Roman Empire service alliance identity The noble and steadfast knight Werner von Parsberg was then called to lead the third division, and he was entrusted with the banner of the noble town of Nuremberg. ¹ Werner von Parsberg’s relationship with Nuremberg directly...

.../about_us/legal/notices ) Thirty Years War Peace of Westphalia war violence diplomacy Holy Roman Empire The Thirty Years War (1618–1648) remains a defining event in early modern European history generally, and in German history more particularly. It is still widely considered to mark major political...

.... Johannes Hass lived in a region that was both part of the Holy Roman Empire and a side land (Nebenland) of the Bohemian crown. ⁹ The religious idiosyncrasies of Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz), the region that contains Görlitz, are echoed in Hass’s piety. Born into an artisan...

.... This article traces these developments in the Holy Roman Empire from the 1520s until the end of the seventeenth century on the basis of church ordinances and sermons delivered at the inauguration of new bells. It reconstructs the transformation of the religious soundscape and its perception by contemporaries...

...Beat Kümin Holy Roman Empire rural communities early modern history political culture collective freedom republicanism Ohne Zweifel wird der Gegenstand dieser Abhandlung vielen Lesern beym ersten Anblick sehr geringfügig vorkommen: denn was kann wohl merkwürdiges von einigen wenigen Dörfern...

...Patrick Milton The rehabilitation of the Holy Roman Empire among historians since the Second World War has been a common theme in historiographical overviews of the last fifteen years. ¹ The positive reappraisal of the Old Reich, defending it against accusations of chronic moribundity...

.... identity-building knowledge-transfer surgeons' families professional transformation Holy Roman Empire The 1574 group portrait of Syben Geschwohrne und Schawmeister der Wundtartzney (Seven Master Jurymen and Examination Masters of Surgery) shown in Figure 1 is included in a volume labelled...

... of maître de la chapelle and maître des enffans during various stages of Charles’s reign. Charles V Flemish Chapel Canis Crecquillon Gombert Thiebault dit Pickart Payen Holy Roman Empire The court of Charles V (1500–1558), King of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor and Duke of Burgundy ( illus.1...

... (hardback). © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved. 2009 Abstract This article reviews six essay collections and one monograph on late medieval and early modern political culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Following a general...

... the universities of the Holy Roman Empire displayed their authority. It will focus on two aspects. The first is the development of iconographic formulae that can convey the constitution and activity of a university or one of its faculties; and the second is the role of coats of arms or other political signs...

... Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg—a part of Charles V’s empire. Once the possession of the dukes of Burgundy, these lands had passed into the Holy Roman Empire after the death of the last duke, Charles the Bold, in 1477. Mary, the daughter of Charles, was the wife of Maximilian and Charles V’s mother...

...This chapter focuses on the Jewish settlement, toleration, association until 1639. First, it revisits how the Jews were treated—as the only tolerated non-Christian group—throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the sixteenth century, the situation of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire greatly...

...The Holy Roman Empire had no written constitution, but only some basic laws. Seven prince-electors elected the emperor but the political power shifted increasingly to the territories with their secular or ecclesiastical rulers. The empire passed only a few formal laws; however, the Constitutio...

... connections. As a diplomat, he went to the courts of France, the Holy Roman Empire, and the papal states, meeting many of the leading political figures of the age. He judged the rulers of the time to be too inflexible and excessively reliant on fortune. He also learned the value of decisiveness. Machiavelli’s...