Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Volume I: Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493-1648
Joachim Whaley
Table of Contents
I: Introduction: Narratives of Early Modern German History
II. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in 1500
1. Origins and Frontiers
2. The Reich as a Polity
3. Fragmented Territories
4. The Reich and the German Nation
III. The Reform of the Reich and the Church c. 1490-1519
1. The Reformation Era in German history
2. The Reich under Maximilian I
3. Reich, Papacy, and Reichskirche
4. Religious Renewal and the Laity
5. Humanism in the Reich
6. The 'Print Revolution' and the Public Sphere
7. Economic Landscapes, Communities, and their Grievances
8. Martin Luther and the 'Luther affair' 1517-19
IV. Charles V and the Challenge of the Reformation in the 1520s
1. The Reich During the First Decade of Charles V
2. Luther and Imperial Politics, 1519-1526
3. Luther and the German Reform Movement
4. Alternative Reformations and the Dominance of Lutheranism
5. The Knights' War, 1522-23
6. The Peasants' War 1525
7. Reformation in the Cities
V. Mastering the Reformation c. 1526-1555
1. The Emergence of Protestant Territories
2. The Persistence of Catholicism
3. Charles V, Ferdinand, and the Reich in Europe
4. The Establishment of Protestantism, 1526-1530
5. The Schmalkaldic League, its Counterparts and the Politics of the Reich, 1530-1541
6. Charles V as 'Lord of Germany', 1541-58
7. The Triumph of the Reich, 1548-1555
VI. Managing the Peace 1555-1618
1. Contours of the 'Confessional Age'
2. Emperors, Imperial Officials, and Estates after the Peace of Augsburg
3. Constitutional developments after 1555: Reichstag, Kreise, Courts, and Legislation
4. The Reich in Europe
5. Managing the Domestic Peace, 1555-c.1585
6. The Consensus Falters, c. 1585-1603
7. Paralysis, 1603-1614
8. Problems of the Habsburg Dynasty
9. The Reich in the Reign of Emperor Matthias, 1612-19
10. The Crisis of the Habsburg lands
VII. The German Territories and Cities after 1555
1. Problems of Interpretation
2. A Benign Environment?
3. State Formation?
4. Domestic Order and Defence
5. Confessionalisation?
6. Finance, Taxation, and Estates
7. The Resurgence of the Courts
8. Imperial Cities
9. Responding to Crises
VIII. The Thirty Years War 1618-1648
1. The Thirty Years War in German History
2. What Kind of Conflict?
3. The Reconquest of Austria and Bohemia, 1618-1623
4. Ferdinand Victorious
5. Denmark and the War for the Reich, 1623-29
6. What Kind of Reich? Sweden and the Defence of German Liberties, 1630-35
7. Wallenstein and After
8. France, Sweden, and the German Way, 1635-48
9. The Peace of Westphalia
10. The Impact of the War on German Society
11. The Thirty Years War and the German Polity
Glossary
Abbreviations
Bibliography