The Holy Roman Empire is a highly complex and long-term historical development which extends from the early Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. The concept of a .Holy Roman Empire. also includes problems which are hard to address satisfactorily within the compass of an encyclopedia entry: it involves the deep influence of mythical thinking connected with the notion of the German Empire (see, for instance, Friedrich Heer,
The Holy Roman Empire, 1967/1968; 2002; Malte Prietzel,
Das Heilige Römische Reich im Spätmittelalter, 2004) and the anachronistic projection of modern concepts of a German nation and a German people into the past, whereas national ideas and the sense of a German national identity did not emerge until the nineteenth century.However we can examine the topic by…
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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "The Holy Roman Empire". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 December 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1646, accessed 21 November 2024.]
