The Holy Roman Empire
内容简介
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016
'Hugely impressive... Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review
A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czech Republic, its relations with Italy, France and Poland dictated the course of countless wars - indeed European history as a whole makes no sense without it.
In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Empire worked. It is not a chronological history, but an attempt to convey to readers why it was so important and how it changed over its existence. The result is a tour de force - a book that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military power, about diplomacy and the nature of European civilization and about the legacy of the Empire, which has continued to haunt its offspring, from Imperial and Nazi Germany to the European Union.
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作者简介
Peter H. Wilson is the author of the highly acclaimed Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War (2009). He is the Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford.
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读书文摘
8世纪和9世纪的清单显示，帝国之内大多数教堂至少有一本宗教书，在没有印刷术的时代，这是一项了不起的成就。基督教教义也通过非文字渠道传播，例如壁画、雕塑、布道和神秘剧。
帝国没有之于英国的泰晤士河谷、之于法国的法兰西岛那种稳定的核心区域。帝国没有固定的首都，没有唯一的主保圣人，也没有共同的语言或文化。
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