ABSTRACT
First Published in 2006. This book attempts a new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It makes use of regional printed materials and of unpublished state archives from north-west Germany, a large and important region of which no thorough study has yet been published in English.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|38 pages
Introduction
part Two|120 pages
Territorial States in North-west Germany
part Three|83 pages
Society and Politics in One State: the County of Lippe
part Four|128 pages
Relations between State and Federation: Lippe and the Empire
part Five|9 pages
Conclusion