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The Holy Roman Empire: a Thousand Years of Europes History Free FREE THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A THOUSAND YEARS OF EUROPES HISTORY PDF Peter H. Wilson | 1008 pages | 28 Jan 2016 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9781846143182 | English | London, United Kingdom Holy Roman Empire - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Heart of Europe by Peter H. The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europes History of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states. And its legacy can be seen today in debates over the nature of the European Union. By the mid-tenth century its core rested in the German kingdom, and ultimately its territory stretched from France and Denmark to Italy and Poland. Yet the Empire remained stubbornly abstract, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture. Though the title of Holy Roman Emperor retained prestige, rising states such as Austria and Prussia wielded power in a way the Empire could not. While it gradually lost the flexibility to cope with political, economic, and social changes, the Empire was far from being in crisis until the onslaught of the French revolutionary wars, when a crushing defeat by Napoleon at Austerlitz compelled Francis II to dissolve his realm. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published February 29th by Belknap Press first published February 23rd More Details Original Title. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Holy Roman Empire. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Heart of Europeplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. The historian facing an unmanageably large topic has a few strategies open to her. She can knuckle down and simply plough through in chronological order — in the manner of, let's say, Diarmaid MacCulloch's History of Christianity which is great. Or you can do what Peter H. Wilson does here: abandon chronology altogether, and structure your book entirely thematically. It sounds logical but having read this, I don't think it really works. Arguably, the problem of trying to maintain The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europes History working timeline in your head is even worse than the problem of trying to maintain themes in your head when reading a chronological study. What happens here is that you leap centuries from one paragraph to the next in pursuit of details relating to for instance the empire's interaction with the papacy, but you never stay anywhere long enough to get a sense of the personalities or societies at play. Frederick Barbarossa, the twelfth-century emperor, should have been a shoo-in for compelling hero: a dashingly handsome, multilingual polymath who rewrote law codes and led an army on the Third Crusade. Here, he's a nonentity who shuffles vaguely in and out at intervals of several hundred pages. Similarly, I've read a fair bit about Ferdinand II in books about the Thirty Years War, and was hoping to get a fuller picture of him: he remains a complete cipher. Social convulsions like the witchcraft craze or the Black Death might as well never have happened, and even such enormities as the Reformation only seem to feature when they intersect with one of Wilson's master-themes. I am told that the Nine Years War required the calling-up of 31, Kreistruppen — but when it comes to who they were fighting, or where, or why, I'm completely in the dark. Schmalkaldic League! It's funny to see how this detail reappears in almost every printed review of The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europes History book — because it's the only thing even vaguely anecdotal in the whole one thousand pages. If you have a particular area of interest, and look it up in the index, then Wilson's book is sure to be very enlightening I was interested in how Switzerland came about, and he's great on that subject. He's enlightening and thorough and admirable on loads of subjects. But the book's structure abandons any attempt at narrative history by definition — it leaves the whole thing working fairly well in an encyclopaedic way, but not as something to read through in sequence. Perhaps the most interesting and important sections are Part Two, which discusses the geographical entities that made up the Empire why he delays this for so long is beyond meand the last section where Wilson looks The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europes History the empire's reputation in subsequent historiography. Through the blunt force of repetition, his central argument is at least pretty clear: that the empire, as a decentralised entity with multiple sites of power Germany still doesn't have a single dominant metropolisdid not fit the emerging model of sovereign states — but that it worked rather well all the same, and might be a useful study for contemporary structures like the European Union. This is a counterargument to the traditional view, which is that The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europes History was already an inefficient and moribund dinosaur when Napoleon put it out of its misery in Which is ironic, considering that one of the things that has interfered with reassessments of the Holy Roman Empire is the fact that the very word Reicheven in German, has become tainted by Nazism. I think overall this book feels like a necessary, but sometimes tedious, laying-out of the groundwork, presenting a lot of otherwise inaccessible German historiography to an English audience and bringing the conversation up to date. The Holy Roman Empire was qualitatively different, and including such differences might be a crucial necessity for modern politics. It's a fascinating idea, but in the end I don't think you really need to push through this whole thing to get the point. View all 16 comments. Jul 19, Justin Evans rated it liked it Shelves: history-etc. A beautifully designed book that is almost entirely unreadable: less a monograph than an encyclopedia. Wilson gets to avoid the perils of Great Man History i. He gets to privilege the very hip no-really-ideas-matter-a-lot perspective of contemporary history. The form doe A beautifully designed book that is almost entirely unreadable: less a monograph than an encyclopedia. The form doesn't really help in what seems to be the main goal of this book, which The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europes History to convince people that old historiography of the HRE is wrong to see it as a doddering mess always holding back the development of nation states. It is, you'll be surprised to learn, more complex than that. All well and good; do we need to be reminded in every section? In every chapter? Every part of every chapter? Yes, because that's the only thing holding this mass of small bits together. Otherwise it is a compendium of short essays on various topics, each one very worthwhile, but on the whole utterly unreadable. A better way to hold them together would have been some sense of narrative, but that would have The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europes History a more traditionally chronological book, which would have vitiated all that great avoiding the Great Men and avoiding the Materialists stuff. Unless that stuff isn't really all that much of a worry, when the third option is a collection of very well-researched, cutting edge wikipedia entries on, e. Two things to note: Wilson clearly knows a lot about his subject matter, and I'd love to take a class with him on it. And there's a chronology at the back of the book, f0r mere mortals like me who can't handle the constant flipping between time periods. It's 54 pages long, detailed, but focused. If only the book had more in common with that. View all 7 comments. If you like your history bone dry, this is the book for you! Clearly superior to a series of Wikipedia entries, so who can complain? The notes for the most part refer to secondary sources, but hey, there are an awful lot of them. Wilson has wisely included lists of the emperors and kings in the back of the book, without which most readers would be lost. Some will surely be lost anyway. There were times when I had that feeling — e. Besides this ten If you like your history bone dry, this is the book for you! Besides this tendency to generalize across the centuries, there is also that of simply piling fact upon fact, and to forego such things as narrative and chronology. The latter, Wilson writes, "would be unfeasibly long" — but is found, to a degree, in Part III Governance and also in the last couple of chapters of Part IV, as well as in the Appendix - but narrative only occasionally. I am quite stubborn, which is proven by the fact that I actually did finish this book.
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