{"product_id":"associative-political-culture-in-the-duncan-hardy-9780198827252","title":"Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521","description":"What was the Holy Roman Empire in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries? At the turning point between the medieval and early modern periods, this vast Central European polity was the continent's most politically fragmented. The imperial monarchs were often weak and distant, while a diverse array of regional actors played an autonomous role in political life. The Empire's obvious differences compared with more centralized European kingdoms have stimulated negative historical judgements and fraught debates, which have found expression in recent decades in the concepts of fractured \"territorial states\" and a disjointed \"imperial constitution\". \u003cem\u003eAssociative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire\u003c\/em\u003e challenges these interpretations through a wide-ranging case study of Upper Germany-the southern regions of modern-day Germany plus Alsace, Switzerland, and western Austria-between 1346 and 1521. By examining the interactions of princes, prelates, nobles, and towns comparatively, \u003cem\u003eAssociative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that a range of actors and authorities shared the same toolkit of technologies, rituals, judicial systems, and concepts and configurations of government. Crucially, Upper German elites all participated in leagues, alliances, and other treaty-based associations. As frameworks for collective activity, associations were a vital means of enabling and regulating warfare, justice and arbitration, and even lordship and administration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the basis of this evidence, \u003cem\u003eAssociative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new and more coherent depiction of the Holy Roman Empire as a sprawling community of interdependent elites who interacted within the framework of a shared political culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Duncan Hardy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198827253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198827252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2019","brand":"Duncan Hardy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054696362239,"sku":"9780198827252","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b012b00e-3391-4b55-a62e-97d182c24031.jpg?v=1685031456","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/associative-political-culture-in-the-duncan-hardy-9780198827252","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}