Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation?

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Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, the Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire

“…Legal centralization played an important role in this process-a process that led eventually to the rise of states governed by the rule of law. In the Holy Roman Empire, however, this process stalled and went into reverse and as a result central Europe remained politically fragmented until the nineteenth century (Scales, 2005;Wilson, 2016). The fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire had important consequences for the success of the Reformation, an event that greatly shaped subsequent European history (see Becker et al, 2016).…”

“…Thus for the period with which we are concerned the Holy Roman Emperor was both an imperial overlord and a great territorial prince in his own right, but he was not did have the power to subdue his nobility or to make laws for the entire empire (Stubbs, 1908;Arnold, 1991bArnold, ,a, 2000Scales, 2005). 47 The weakness of the Holy Roman Emperor saw the emergence of Imperial Free Cities, Bishoprics, and 46 Frederick established a centralized state administration in Sicily but in Germany he left a legacy of decentralized and contested authority.…”

Imperial Defence Integration Through Military Cooperation?

“…Studies of the Humanist construct of a German nation have stressed the significance of wars in Italy and against the Ottomans in the early sixteenth century. These conflicts reinforced the existing association of the German royal, later imperial title with defence of Christendom 36 . Some of this work is problematic and it is certainly not possible to draw a straight line between such views and twentieth century nationalism as has been suggested recently 37 .…”

Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire

“…Thus for the period with which we are concerned the Holy Roman Emperor was both an imperial overlord and a great territorial prince in his own right, but he was not did have the power to subdue his nobility or to make laws for the entire empire (Stubbs, 1908;Arnold, 1991bArnold, ,a, 2000Scales, 2005).…”

“…Legal centralization played an important role in this process-a process that led eventually to the rise of states governed by the rule of law. In the Holy Roman Empire, however, this process stalled and went into reverse and as a result central Europe remained politically fragmented until the nineteenth century (Scales, 2005;Wilson, 2016). The fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire had important consequences for the success of the Reformation, an event that greatly shaped subsequent European history (see Becker et al, 2016).…”