Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. SERIES PREFACE x
5. PREFACE xi
6. CONTRIBUTORS xii
7. INTRODUCTION The Holy Roman Empire in History and Historiography 1
8. SECTION I Presence, Performance, & Text
9. CHAPTER 1 Discontinuities Political Transformation, Media Change, and the City in the Holy Roman Empire from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 11
10. CHAPTER 2 Overloaded Interaction Effects of the Growing Use of Writing in German Imperial Cities, 1500–1800 35
11. CHAPTER 3 Princes’ Power, Aristocratic Norms, and Personal Eccentricities: Le Charactère Bizarre of Frederick William I of Prussia (1713–1740) 49
12. SECTION 2 Symbolic Meaning, Identity, & Memory
13. CHAPTER 4 The Illuminated Reich: Memory, Crisis, and the Visibility of Monarchy in Late Medieval Germany 73
14. CHAPTER 5 The Production of Knowledge about Confessions: Witnesses and their Testimonies about Normative Years In and After the Thirty Years’ War 93
15. CHAPTER 6 Staging Individual Rank and Corporate Identity: Pre-Modern Nobilities in Provincial Politics 107
16. CHAPTER 7 The Importance of Being Seated: Ceremonial Conflict in Territorial Diets 125
17. SECTION 3 Ceremony, Procedure, & Legitimation
18. CHAPTER 8 Ceremony and Dissent: Religion, Procedural Conflicts, and the “Fiction of Consensus” in Seventeenth-Century Germany 145
19. CHAPTER 9 Contested Bodies: Schwäbisch Hall and its Neighbors in the Conflicts Regarding High Jurisdiction (1550–1800) 163
20. CHAPTER 10 Conflict and Consensus Around German Princes’ Unequal Marriages: Prince’s Autonomy, Emperor’s Intervention, and the Juridification of Dynastic Politics 177
21. CHAPTER 11 Power and Good Governance: The Removal of Ruling Princes in the Holy Roman Empire, 1680–1794 191
22. SECTION 4 Imperial Institutions, Confession, & Power Relations
23. CHAPTER 12 Marital Affairs as a Public Matter within the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Duke Ulrich and Duchess Sabine of Württemberg at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 213
24. CHAPTER 13 The Corpus Evangelicorum: A Culturalist Perspective on its Procedure in the Eighteenth-Century Holy Roman Empire 229
25. CHAPTER 14 Gallican Longings: Church and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany 249
26. CONCLUSION New Directions in the Study of the Holy Roman Empire— A Cultural Approach 265
27. Glossary 271
28. Bibliography 273
29. INDEX 319