VOLUME 1
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Government and Politics
Overview Essay
Austria
Babenberg Dynasty (976-1246)
Baden
Bavaria
Bohemia
Brandenburg
Burgundy
Carolingian Dynasty (750-887)
Cleves
Feudal Politics
Franconia
Habsburg Dynasty (1273-1918)
Hanover
Hesse
Hohenstaufen Dynasty (1138-1254)
Hohenzollern Dynasty (1415-1918)
Hungary
Italy (Lombardy, Papal States, Sicily)
Lowlands
Luxembourg Dynasty (1308-1437)
Palatinate
Prussia
Salian Dynasty (1024-1125)
Saxony
Swabia
Switzerland
Tyrol
Welf Dynasty (1070-1918)
Wittelsbach Dynasty (1124-1918)
Württemberg (1089-1918)
Organization and Administration
Overview Essay
Banks and Banking
Circles (Kreise)
Cities
Coinage and Currency
Conciliarism
Counts and Counties
Diets
Diplomacy
Duchies
Economics
Electoral Princes
Electors and Elections
Emperor
Empire (Reich)
Empress/Queen
Estates
Excommunication
Imperial Aulic Council (Imperial Privy Council, Reichshofrat)
Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht)
Imperial Chancellery
King/Kingdom
Laws and Courts
March
Markets and Trade
Ministerials
Papacy
Perpetual Diet (Immerwährender Reichstag) of Regensburg
Postal Service, Imperial
Prince-Bishoprics
Public Peace (Landfrieden)
Taxes and Tolls
Individuals
Overview Essay
Augustus II "the Strong" Wettin of Saxony (1670-1733)
Charlemagne (747-814)
Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1346-1378)
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1519-1556)
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1711-1740)
Conrad III Staufen, King of Germany (r. 1138-1152)
Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736)
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1619-1637)
Franz II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1792-1806)
Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1155-1190)
Frederick II of Germany and Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1220-1250)
Frederick II "the Great," King of Prussia (r. 1740-1786)
Frederick III Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1452-1493)
Frederick William, "The Great Elector" (1620-1688)
Frederick William I, King of Prussia (r. 1713-1740)
Henry I "the Fowler" (876-936)
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1002-1024)
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1056-1105)
Henry "the Lion" of Saxony (1129-1195)
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1765-1790)
Leo IX, Pope (r. 1049-1054)
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1658-1705)
Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
Maria Theresia, Archduchess of Austria (r. 1740-1780)
Maximilian I Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1493-1519)
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 962-973)
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 996-1002)
Rudolf I (r. 1273-1291)
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1576-1612)
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1433-1437)
Wallenstein, Albrecht (1583-1634)
Wenceslaus IV (1361-1419)
Groups and Organizations
Overview Essay
Anabaptists
Calvinists
Catholic League (1609-1635)
Clergy
Fugger Family (1367-ca. 1650)
Guelphs and Ghibellines
Guilds
Hanseatic League
Heretics
Humanists
Hussites
Imperial Abbeys
Inquisition
Jews
Lutherans
Magyars/Hungarians
Marriage and Family
Minorities
Monasteries and Monasticism
Moravians
Nobility
Peasants and Serfs
Protestant Union (1608-1621)
Roman Catholics
Schmalkaldic League (1531-1547)
Swabian League (Städtebund) (1331-1389, 1488-1534)
Teutonic Knights
Universities and Schools
Women
Index
VOLUME 2
Key Events
Overview Essay
Baroque Era (early 17th-mid-18th centuries)
Black Death (1346-1353)
Canossa (1077)
Carolingian Renaissance (late eighth-ninth centuries)
Charlemagne, Imperial Coronation of (800)
Commercial Revolution (1350-1600)
Concordat of Worms (1122)
Council of Basel (1431-1449)
Council of Constance (1414-1418)
Council of Trent (1545-1563)
Counter-Reformation
Defenestration of Prague (1618)
Diet of Worms (1521)
"Drive to the East" (Drang nach Osten)
Enlightenment (18th century)
Gothic Era (early 13th-early 15th centuries)
Great Schism (1054)
Habsburg-Valois Conflict (1494-1559)
Interregnum (1250-1273)
Investiture Controversy (11th-12th centuries)
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Printing
Reformation
Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803)
Renaissance (early 15th-early 17th centuries)
Romanesque Era (10th-early 13th centuries)
Sturm und Drang (1765-1785)
Treaty of Verdun (843)
Witch Hunts
Military
Overview Essay
Artillery
Bouvines, Battle of (1214)
Castles
Cavalry
Chivalry
Cortenuova, Battle of (1237)
Crusades
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Hussite Wars (1419-ca. 1434)
Infantry
Knights
Landsknechte
Lechfeld, Battle of (955)
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
Northern Crusades (12th-13th centuries)
Ottoman/Turkish Wars (1521-1791)
Peasants' Revolt (1524-1526)
Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703-1711)
Saxon Wars (ca. 770-814)
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
Tannenberg, Battle of (1410)
Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
Vienna, Sieges of (1529, 1683)
Vikings
War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
Weapons
Objects and Artifacts
Overview Essay
Aachen Cathedral (ca. 805)/Throne of Charlemagne
Bernward of Hildesheim's Bronze Doors (ca. 1015)
Brandenburg Gate (1791)
Cologne Cathedral (1248-1473)
Dürer, Albrecht, Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe (1500)
Evangeliary of Otto III (ca. 1000)
Grünewald, Matthias, Isenheim Altarpiece (1512)
Holy Lance
Imperial Coat of Arms (ca. 1430)
Imperial Crypt, Vienna (1632)
Imperial Regalia (Crown, Scepter, Orb) (ca. 962-1020)
Innsbruck Hofkirche (1553)
Klosterneuburg Altar (1181)
Luther, Martin, Bible of (1534)
Manesse Codex (ca. 1330)
Meissen Porcelain (1708-1756)
Riemenschneider, Tilman (1460-1531)
Sanssouci Palace (1747)
Speyer Cathedral (ca. 1030)
Würzburg Residence/Gianbattista Tiepolo Paintings (1744)
Key Places
Overview Essay
Aachen
Augsburg
Bamberg
Basel
Berlin
Cologne
Frankfurt am Main
Hanover
Innsbruck
Magdeburg
Mainz
Munich
Nuremberg
Prague
Salzburg
Silesia
Strasbourg
Trier
Vienna
Würzburg
Primary Documents
1. Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (early ninth century)
2. Carolingian Capitularies (late eighth century)
3. Treaty of Verdun (843)
4. Liutprand of Cremona, History of Otto (Historia Ottonis) (964)
5. Widukind of Corvey, Deeds of the Saxons (Res Gestae Saxonicorum) (973)
6. Adam of Bremen, Deeds of the Priests of the Church of Hamburg (1076)
7. Letters from the Investiture Controversy (late 11th-early 12th centuries)
8. Concordat of Worms (1122)
9. Hildegard of Bingen, The Order of Virtues (Ordo Virtutum) (ca. 1151)
10. Imperial Chronicle (Kaiserchronik) (ca. 1152-1165)
11. Otto of Freising, Chronicle (mid-12th century)
12. Carmina Burana (12th century)
13. Walther von der Vogelweide, Poetry (early 13th century)
14. Sachsenspiegel (ca. 1220)
15. Laws of Frederick II (1220, 1231-1232)
16. Salimbene, Chronicle (13th century)
17. Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogue of Miracles (Dialogus miraculorum) (1235)
18. Jacobus de Voragine, Golden Legend (ca. 1260)
19. Eternal Bond of Switzerland (1291)
20. Dante, De Monarchia (early 14th century)
21. Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis (1324)
22. Golden Bull (1356)
23.Nicholas of Cusa, De Concordantia Catholica (1433)
24. Royal Coronation of Maximilian I (1486)
25. Henry Krämer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum) (1486)
26. Ewige Landfriede (1495)
27. Desiderius Erasmus, Education of a Christian Prince (early 16th century)
28. Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (1517)
29. Edict of Worms (1521)
30. Peasant Grievances/Peasants' Revolt (1525)
31. Augsburg Confession (1530)
32. Abdication of Charles V (1555)
33. Edict of Restitution (1629)
34. Friedrich von Spee, Cautio Criminalis (1631)
35. Treaties of Westphalia (1648)
36. Samuel Pufendorf, Constitution of the German Empire (1667)
37. Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (1669)
38. John Sobieski, Letter Describing the Siege of Vienna (1683)
39. Edict of the Great Elector Welcoming Huguenots (1685)
40. Glückel of Hameln, Memoirs (1690-1724)
41. Joseph II, Memorandum on the Structure and Political Condition of the Holy Roman Empire (1767/1768)
42. Frederick the Great, Advice to His Successor (1777)
43. Franz II, Abdication (1806)
44. Joseph Görres, On the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
Appendix: Kings and Emperors of Germany (768-1806)
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
