El Sacro Imperio Romano-Germánico

In a narrative spanning three turbulent centuries, Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger takes readers from the Reformation era at the dawn of the 16th century to its crisis, from the consolidation of the Augsburg Peace to the destructive fury of the War of the Thirty Years, from the conflict between Austria and Prussia to the fall of the Empire in the era of the French Revolution. This story is an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in European history, a new interpretation that reveals why the Holy Empire was not a failed state, as many historians believe.