Название: The Holy Roman Empire
Автор: Friedrich Heer
Издательство: Frederick A. Prager
Год: 1968
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 444
Размер: 94 MB
Язык: English

The Holy Roman Empire survived for over 1,000 years--and its institutions, ideas, and political divisions haunt Europe still. Starting with Charlemagne's coronation on Christmas day 800, and ending with the illegal suspension of the Empire by Francis II in 1806, this ambitious and comprehensive history examines the status of the Emperor, meaning of kingship and leadership, the Empire's structure, internal conflicts, and shifting centers of power, and ever present ideal of a united Europe.

In this splendid survey of a significant period in the history of civilization, the noted Austrian nistorian Friedrich Heer traces the development of the Holy Roman Empire from the time of Charlemagne—a time when people saw no break in continuity from the Empire of Augustus—through the times of the Ottomans; the continuous, shattering conflicts between popes and emperors; and the rise and eventual gracious decline of the Habsburgs. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the Empire constantly changed, not only in shape and location but in the very basis of its existence. Always it was beset from without and within by political, religious, and social turmoil.