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Whaley Joachim. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. Vol.1. Oxford University Press. 2012.—741 p. ISBN 978—0—19—873101—6.
Contents: Introduction: Narratives of Early Modern German History. Germany and Holy Roman Empire in 1500. The Reform of the Reich and the Church, c. 1490-1519. Charles V and the Challenge of the Reformation in the 1520s. Managing the Peace,1555-1618. The German Territoiries and Sities after 1555. The Thirty Years War 1618-1648.
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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire BY JOACHIM WHALEY VOLUME 1 FROM MAXIMILIAN I TO THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA 1493–1648
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Acknowledgements I have incurred numerous debts during my work on this project and it is my pleasure to record some of them here. The list of institutions may be complete, but I have no doubt that I have overlooked many individuals and I should apologize to them at this point. The British Academy provided me with a generous Wolfson European Fellowship when I started work, which enabled me to spend time at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Book and research grants provided by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge have been invaluable at every stage. The College also generously awarded me an additional grant towards the cost of the index. I am grateful to the Electors of the Tiarks German Scholarship Fund, who kindly agreed to pay for the maps and to help with other costs I incurred in the production of the manuscript. A generous grant from the Newton Trust helped me in the final stages of checking the manuscript for submission and preparing it for publication. Among the many people who have given me help and encouragement over the years, I should like to thank the following: Geoff Bailey, Derek Beales, Ilya Bercovich, Tim Blanning, Nicholas Boyle, Annabel Brett, Anita Bunyan, Paul Castle, Stephanie Chan, Christopher Clark, Christophe Duhamelle, Richard Duncan-Jones, Richard Evans, Stephen Fennell, Axel Gotthard, the late Trevor Johnson, Andreas Klinger, Charlotte Lee, Neil McKendrick, Ian Macle