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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Holy Roman Empire"”.
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Italian frescoes in German baroque palaces: visual culture and princely power in the Holy Roman Empire
… spreading to the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire by 1700, large-scale Italian ceiling paintings soared in popularity as nobles of all ranks competed with one another to produce ever more lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim to princely power and political …
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German Identity in the Court Festivals of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Holy Roman Empire
… and upheld through court festivals within the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the period between the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and the coronation of Friedrich V, Elector Palatine, as King of Bohemia in 1619. The thesis is made up of five inter-related thematic chapters. Chapter I …
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
… accepted thesis on the resacralisation of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1152 – 1190) and Rainald of Dassel (chancellor 1156 – 1159, archbishop of Cologne 1159 – 1167). I first trace the history of this opinion, showing how scholars gradually came to consider sacrum …
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The Opera Theater of Count Franz Anton Von Sporck in Prague (1724-35)
… to have been the first public theater in the Holy Roman Empire to survive for a sustained period of time presenting Italian repertory exclusively. The Sporck theater probably provided the composers Gluck and Stamitz with their earliest exposure to opera and possibly attracted Antonio Vivaldi …
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Anglo-Habsburg Relations in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14
… to the Spanish monarchy, possessors of the Holy Roman Imperial mantle and potentates of the Monarchia Austriaca. This complex diplomatic relationship has received limited consideration by historians. Nevertheless, it is the contention of this study that the Anglo-Habsburg alliance made a …
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Masculinity and Politics in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Dramatic Works
… political and confessional tension with the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. This dissertation demonstrates that throughout Lohenstein's dramas the representatives of ancient Rome, the legitimate predecessors to the ruling Habsburgs, experience a decline in masculine-coded virtue while …
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Reforming nationhood : England in the literature of the Tudor imperial age, 1509-1553
The thesis explores the relationship between empire and nationhood in the literature of the Royal Supremacy. In so doing, it contests the assumptions of the social historians Michel Foucault, Benedict Anderson, Jürgen Habermas, and Ernest Gellner - all of whom have dated the dawn of the …
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Lords of War: Maximilian I of Bavaria and the Institutions of Lordship in the Catholic League Army, 1619-1626
… contractors reflected deeper struggles among the Holy Roman Empire's nobilities over how to incorporate their own lordship within the evolving structures of the imperial state. Nobles who fought in Maximilian's service staked their wealth and landed power on his success in securing a preeminent …
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Head Studies by Balthasar Denner
… was the weakening of imperial power. The Holy Roman Empire became little more than a name. This assured that the hundreds of princely states, independent and imperial towns, were free to pursue their separateinterests and practice local political absolutism. The sovereignty permitted by …
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Revolution of Reforms: The Kingdom of Bavaria in the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
… underway before Napoleon assimilated it into his empire. However, much of that progressive policy would not have been enacted without Napoleon's protection. This project therefore will represent an attempt to show that the reform policies of Maximilian von Montgelas and his lord, Max Joseph of …
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The consort suite in the German-speaking lands (1660-1705)
… even if they were nominal citizens of the Holy Roman Empire. The end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 had hardly brought lasting peace to Germany: in France, Louis XIV had territorial ambitions, and this brought him into conflict with Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite the political …
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Baccio del Bianco at the Court of Spain: Early Modern Scenic Design in Context
… Florence, and he later worked in Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, before taking up the post of court theatre designer for King Philip IV of Spain in Madrid. There is a large amount of extant documentation relating to his life and work, including a presentation copy of a play by Pedro Calderón de …
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Rex Christus Ascendens: The Christological Cult of the Ascension in Anglo -Saxon England
… divine and one human. The Ottonian crown of the Holy Roman Empire, for example, accompanies its depictions of kings with Solomonic texts referring to right rule and stresses the dual nature of monarchs through having the kings on the crown hold scrolls before them that split their bodies in two …
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Svenska Pommern : kulturmöten och identifikation 1720–1815
… the crown of Sweden. It was both a part of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and the Swedish realm. The port town of Stralsund played a key roll in the Swedish economy at the Baltic Sea, whereas the university town of Greifswald was the intellectual centre. On a cultural level, this …
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Viennese Culture and Politics, 1861 to 1938: Everyday Expressions of ‘German’ Identity
… which were to be brought together as the German Empire in 1871 and the German-speaking parts of the Habsburg Empire. After the First World War, Germany and Austria were the main, if not only, points of attention. Switzerland and its German-speaking population received little Pan-German attention, …
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Gender as a resource of power at the early modern court of Württemberg, c. 1580-1630
This dissertation investigates how the category of gender difference was mobilised as a practice of power at the early modern court. It argues that gender was not simply a relational category affecting who could participate in early modern politics in what ways, but that it constituted a crucial …
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Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
… operation, governance and expansion of the Dutch empire. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, around 250,000 Germans served in the Dutch East India Company in its territories in southern Africa and southeast Asia, totalling over a quarter of the Company’s workforce. Germans enlisted …
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(At)testing Virtue: Shine and the Materiality of Metals in the Construction of Habsburg Nobility (1477–1519)
… Habsburg nobility, with particular focus on the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519). Beyond generic interpretations of metals as precious materialia, I show how metallic matter and its visual effects were sought out to materialise the position of Maximilian and his dynasty in a …