Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire is often cited to underli
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Table of contents :
Introduction - What was the Holy Roman Empire?
1:Roman Empire and German Kingdom: From Charlemagne to the Ottonians
2:The High Medieval Empire: From the Salians to the Hohenstaufen
3:The Later Medieval Empire: The emergence of the Habsburgs
4:The Early Modern Empire (1): From Maximilian I to the Thirty Years War
5:The Early Modern Empire (2): From the Peace of Westphalia to 1806
Conclusion: The Legacy of the Holy Roman Empire