An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire.
Peter H. Wilson is the author of the highly acclaimed Europe's Tragedy- A New History of the Thirty Years War (2009). He is the Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford.
Masterly...Peter H Wilson condenses a great deal of modern
scholarship while wearing his learning lightly.
*The Sunday Times*
Wilson's history represents the culmination of a lifetime of
research and thought, and in its scope and depth of detail is an
astonishing scholarly achievement. The author moves from the grand
themes to detail with felicity.
*The Spectator*
As vast and capacious as the empire it describes, his book is as
definitive a study of its subject as one could hope to read...The
Holy Roman Empire deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.
*The Telegraph*
Wilson makes the complex understandable.
*The Guardian*
Peter Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only
English-language work that deals with the empire from start to
finish and on the basis of staggering erudition. He will not thank
anyone for saying so, but it is also a book that is relevant to our
own times.
*The Times*
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