Jason Philip Coy is an Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. He has received a DAAD Research Grant and a Maria Sibylla Merian Fellowship for Postdoctoral Studies from the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is the author of Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (2008).

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Introduction: The Holy Roman Empire in History and Historiography
Jason Coy

SECTION I: PRESENCE, PERFORMANCE, AND TEXT

Chapter 1. Discontinuities: Political Transformation, Media Change, and the City in the Holy Roman Empire from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz

Chapter 2. Overloaded Interaction: Effects of the Growing Use of Writing in German Imperial Cities, 1500-1800
Alexander Schlaak

Chapter 3. Princes' Power, Aristocratic Norms, and Personal Eccentricities: Le Caractère Bizarre of Frederick William I of Prussia (1713-1740)
Benjamin Marschke

SECTION II: SYMBOLIC MEANING, IDENTITY, AND MEMORY

Chapter 4. The Illuminated Reich: Memory, Crisis, and the Visibility of Monarchy in Late Medieval Germany
Len Scales

Chapter 5. The Production of Knowledge about Confessions: Witnesses and their Testimonies about Normative Years in and after the Thirty Years' War
Ralf-Peter Fuchs

Chapter 6. Staging Individual Rank and Corporate Identity: Pre-Modern Nobilities in Provincial Politics
Elizabeth Harding

7. The Importance of Being Seated: Ceremonial Conflict in Territorial Diets
Tim Neu

SECTION III: CEREMONY, PROCEDURE, AND LEGITIMATION

Chapter 8. Ceremony and Dissent: Religion, Procedural Conflicts, and the "Fiction of Consensus" in Seventeenth-Century Germany
David M. Luebke

Chapter 9. Contested Bodies: Schwäbisch Hall and its Neighbors in Conflicts Regarding High Jurisdiction (1550-1800)
Patrick Oelze

Chapter 10. Conflict and Consensus around German Princes' Unequal Marriages: Prince's Autonomy, Emperor's Intervention, and the Juridification of Dynastic Politics
Michael Sikora

Chapter 11. Power and Good Governance: The Removal of Ruling Princes in the Holy Roman Empire, 1680-1794
Werner Trossbach

SECTION IV: IMPERIAL INSTITUTIONS, CONFESSION, AND POWER RELATIONS

Chapter 12. Marital Affairs as a Public Matter within the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Duke Ulrich and Duchess Sabine of Württemberg at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
Michaela Hohkamp

Chapter 13. The Corpus Evangelicorum: A Culturalist Perspective on its Procedure in the Eighteenth-Century Holy Roman Empire
Andreas Kalipke

Chapter 14. Gallican Longings: Church and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Michael Printy

Conclusion: New Directions in the Study of the Holy Roman Empire - A Cultural Approach
André Krischer

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