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The Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire

by Viscount James Bryce Bryce

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Author
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
Credits
Produced by Melissa McDaniel, Stephen Rowland, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DD: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Germany
Subject
Holy Roman Empire -- History
Category
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eBook-No.
44101
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44101
Release Date
November 4, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE.
  2. 2.PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.APPENDIX.
  5. 5.DATES OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE.
  6. 6.CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of EMPERORS AND POPES.
  7. 7.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
  8. 8.CHAPTER II. THE ROMAN EMPIRE BEFORE THE INVASIONS OF THE BARBARIANS.
  9. 9.CHAPTER III. THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS.
  10. 10.CHAPTER IV. RESTORATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.
  11. 11.CHAPTER V. EMPIRE AND POLICY OF CHARLES.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VI. CAROLINGIAN AND ITALIAN EMPERORS.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VII. THEORY OF THE MEDIÆVAL EMPIRE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE GERMAN KINGDOM.
  15. 15.CHAPTER IX. SAXON AND FRANCONIAN EMPERORS.
  16. 16.CHAPTER X. STRUGGLE OF THE EMPIRE AND THE PAPACY.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XI. THE EMPERORS IN ITALY: FREDERICK BARBAROSSA.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XII. IMPERIAL TITLES AND PRETENSIONS.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. FALL OF THE HOHENSTAUFEN.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. THE GERMANIC CONSTITUTION: THE SEVEN ELECTORS.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XV. THE EMPIRE AS AN INTERNATIONAL POWER.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. THE CITY OF ROME IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. THE RENAISSANCE: CHANGE IN THE CHARACTER OF THE EMPIRE.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. THE REFORMATION AND ITS EFFECTS UPON THE EMPIRE.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA: LAST STAGE IN THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XX. FALL OF THE EMPIRE.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. CONCLUSION.
  28. 28.APPENDIX. — NOTE A. On the Burgundies. — NOTE B. On the Relations to the Empire of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. — NOTE C. On certain Imperial Titles and Ceremonies. — NOTE D. Lines contrasting the Past and Present of Rome.
  29. 29.INDEX.
  30. 30.FOOTNOTES:

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