The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806: A European Perspective

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List of Illustrations and Maps ... ix List of Contributors ... xi Introduction ... 1 Peter H. Wilson and R.J.W. Evans Section One: Turning Points The Westphalian Peace: Augsburg Mark II or Celebrated Armistice? ... 19 Lothar Hobelt The Holy Roman Empire as Model for Saint-Pierre's Projet pour rendre la paix perpetuelle en Europe ... 35 Peter Schroder 'Once we were Trojans!' Contemporary Reactions to the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation ... 51 Wolfgang Burgdorf Section Two: Habsburg Governance Inside the Empire and for the House of Austria: The Buquoy Family from the Spanish Low Countries to Bohemia ... 79 Olivier Chaline The Habsburg Court in Vienna: Kaiserhof or Reichshof ? ... 91 Jeroen Duindam Bohemia and the Empire: Acceptance and Rejection ... 121 Jaroslav Panek Bohemia, Silesia and the Empire: Negotiating Princely Dignity on the Eastern Periphery ... 143 Petr Mata Separation and Symbiosis: The Habsburg Monarchy and the Empire in the Seventeenth Century ... 167 Thomas Winkelbauer Section Three: Cores and Peripheries State-Building within the Empire: The Cases of Brandenburg-Prussia and Savoy-Sardinia ... 187 Sven Externbrink Core and Periphery: The Netherlands and the Empire from the Late Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth Century ... 203 Nicolette Mout The Imperial System in Early Modern Northern Italy: A Web of Dukedoms, Fiefs and Enclaves along the Po ... 217 Blythe Raviola Section Four: Neighbours The Impact of War: The Holy Roman Empire and Poland-Lithuania, c. 1600-1806 ... 239 Robert Frost An 'Old Empire' on the Periphery of the Old Empire: The Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ... 259 Geza Palffy The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Electoral Saxony in the Early Eighteenth Century: Crisis and Cooperation ... 281 Adam Perlakowski The Northern Periphery: German Cultural Influences on the Danish-Norwegian Kingdom during the Enlightenment ... 293 Thomas Munck Section Five: Imperial Culture and Identity Centres or Periphery? Art and Architecture in the Empire ... 315 Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Where Did the Jewels of the German Imperial Princes Come From? Aspects of Material Cultural in the Empire ... 333 Kim Siebenhuner Portraiture at the Imperial Court in the First Half of the 17th Century ... 349 Friedrich Polleross Epilogue International System and Imperial System in the 'Short' Eighteenth Century: Two Worlds? ... 367 Heinz Duchhardt Bibliography ... 373 Index ... 385 Illustration Section