The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 ─ A European Perspective

Historians from across Europe examine the final three centuries of a political entity that had stood for a thousand years. They consider turning points, Habsburg governance, core and peripheries, neighbors, and imperial culture and identity. Among the topics are contemporary reactions to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Bohemia and the Empire, the Netherlands and the Empire from the late 15th to the early 17th centuries, the impact of war between the Empire and Poland-Lithuania about 1600-1806, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, and portraiture at the imperial court in the first half of the 17th century. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

R.J.W. Evans, Ph.D. (1969) in History, University of Cambridge, is Regius Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on the (early) modern history of central Europe, e.g. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy (2nd edn 1991).Peter H. Wilson, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Cambridge, is GF Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull. He has published extensively on the history of the Holy Roman Empire, including The Thirty Years War (Harvard, 2009).