The Journal of the Holy Roman EmpireVolume I (Spring 2006)


Book Reviews

Dr. Tryntje Helfferich
University of California, Santa Barbara


Below are links to recent book reviews published by H-Net or H-France on topics relevant to the Holy Roman Empire. The Journal of the Holy Roman Empire will be adding its own in-house reviews soon. If you would like to become a reviewer or you are a publisher who would like your book reviewed in JHRE, please contact the editors at jhreditors@gmail.com or visit our Information for Contributors and Book Reviews page: http://www.jhre.org/contributors.html.

Ken Albala. _Food in Early Modern Europe_. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003. xvii + 260 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0- 313-31962-6.
Reviewed for H-HRE by Sabrina Broselow Moser

Gerd Althoff. _Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 195 pp. $70.00 (cloth),$25.00 (paper), ISBN 0-521-77054-8,0-521-77934-0.
Reviewed for H-German by Christopher LeCluyse

Lara Apps and Andrew Gow. _Male Witches in Early Modern Europe_. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. ix + 190 pp. $64.95 (cloth),$24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7190-5708-6,0-7190-5709-4.
Reviewed for H-German by Kathryn A. Edwards

Irena Backus. _Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615)_. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. XII + 416 pp. $145.00 (cloth), ISBN 90-04-12928-6.
Reviewed for H-German by Susanne Rau

Alessandro Barbero, _Charlemagne: Father of a Continent._ Translated by Allan Cameron. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2004. 426 pp. $29.95 (hb). ISBN 0-520-23943-1. H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 48
Review by Hans Hummer, Wayne State University.



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Frederick C. Beiser. _The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 243 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-01180-5.
Reviewed for H-German by Derrick Miller

Robert Bireley. _The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 312 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-5218-2017-0.
Reviewed for H-German by Matthew O'Brien

Lex Bosman. _The Power of Tradition--Spolia in the Architecture of St. Peter's in the Vatican_. Hilversum: Verloren, 2004. 176 pp. EUR 40.00 (kartoniert), ISBN 90-6550-823-6.
Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Bernd Kulawik

Louise Bourdua. _The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in association with the British School at Rome, 2004. x + 242 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-82158-4.
Reviewed for H-Italy by Michelle Duran-McLure

Andrea Chudaska. _Peter Riedemann: Konfessionbildendes Taeufertum im 16. Jahrhundert_. Guetersloh: Guetersloher Verlagshaus, 2003. 420 pp. EUR 44.95 (cloth), ISBN 3-579-01649-0.
Reviewed for H-German by Ellen Yutzy

Anna Coreth. _Pietas Austriaca_. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004. 100 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 1-55753- 159-5.
Reviewed for H-German by Andrew L. Thomas

Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson, eds. _Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 328 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3761-7.
Reviewed for H-German by Dean Phillip Bell



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Jeroen Duindam. _Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 349 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-82262-9.
Reviewed for H-German by Mara R. Wade

Bogac A. Ergene. _Local Court, Provincial Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Legal Practice and Dispute Resolution in Cankiri and Kastamonu (1652-1744)_. Leiden: Brill, 2003. x + 236 pp. $117.00 (cloth), ISBN 90-04-12609-0.
Reviewed for H-Gender-MidEast by Hootan Shambayati

Peter Eschenloer. _Geschichte der Stadt Breslau_. Muenster and New York: Waxmann, 2003. 1120 pp. EUR 69.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-8309- 1253-6.
Reviewed for H-German by Dean Philip Bell

Angela Fischel, Hg. _Instrumente des Sehens--Bildwelten des Wissens: Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch fuer Bildkritik_. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2004. 110 S. EUR 29.80 (paper), ISBN 3-05- 004063-7.
Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Claudia Bluemle

Barbara Freese. _Coal: A Human History_. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 304 pp. $14.00 (paper), ISBN 0-1420-0098-1.
Reviewed for H-Environment by Jan Kunnas

Kirsten O. Frieling. _Ausdruck macht Eindruck: Buergerliche Koerperpraktiken in sozialer Kommunikation um 1800_. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. 174 pp. EUR 39.90 (paper), ISBN 3-631- 50716-X.
Reviewed for H-German by Erik Jensen

Mary Fulbrook. _A Concise History of Germany_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 277 pp. $54.95 (cloth),$22.00 (paper), ISBN 0-5213-6283-0,0-5215-4071-2.
Reviewed for H-German by Richard John Ascrate



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Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, and Peter J. Kitson. _Literature, Science, and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 324 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-5218-2919-4.
Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Charles Withers

William D. Godsey Jr. _Nobles and Nation in Central Europe: Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850._ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 306 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-83618-2.
Reviewed for H-HRE by J. Trygve Has-Ellison

Kaspar von Greyerz, Manfred Jakusbowski-Tiessen, Thomas Kaufmann, and Hartmut Lehman, eds. _Interkonfessionalitaet-- Transkonfessionalitaet--binnenkonfessionelle Pluralitaet: Neue Forschungen zur Konfessionalisierungsthese_. Heidelberg: Goethersloher Verlagshaus, 2003. 290 pp. EUR 21.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-578-01760-8.
Reviewed for H-German by Marc R. Forster

Geoffrey C. Gunn. _First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800_. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 341 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7425-2662-3.
Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Eva-Maria Stolberg

Peter Haidu, _The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages._ _Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture._ Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv + 446 pp. $65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0804747431; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8047-4744-X. H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 52
Reviewed by Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Berndt Hamm. _Lazarus Spengler (1479-1534): Der Nuernberger Ratsschreiber im Spannungsfeld von Humanismus und Reformation, Politik und Glaube_. bingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. xii + 472 pp. EUR 89.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-1614-8249-2.
Reviewed for H-German by Ronald K. Rittgers



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Stefi Jersch-Wenzel, ed. _Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in polnischen Archiven, Band 1: Ehemalige preussische Provinzen-- Pommern, Westpreuen, Ostpreuen, Preuen, Posen, Grenzmark Posen- Westpreuen, Sd- und Neuostpreuen_. Munich: K. G. Saur, 2003. xliv + 632 pp. EUR 138.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-5981-1649-7.
Reviewed for H-German by Jill Wooten

Karl-Peter Krauss. _Deutsche Auswanderer in Ungarn: Ansiedlung in der Herrschaft Boly im 18. Jahrhundert_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 469 pp. EUR 68.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-515-08221-2.
Reviewed for H-German by Samuel Goldberger

Beth Kreitzer. _Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 239 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0- 19-516654-X.
Reviewed for H-German by Bridget Heal

John Lynn. _Battle: A History of Combat and Culture from Ancient Greece to Modern America_. New York: Westview, 2003. xviii + 431 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8133-3372-5.
Reviewed for H-War by Wayne Lee

Harold Mah. _Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 227 pp. $41.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-4144-7.
Reviewed for H-German by Amir Minsky

Charles Christopher Mierow, ed. _The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 366 pp. $74.50 (cloth),$34.50 (paper), ISBN 0-231-13419-5,0-231-13419-3.
Reviewed for H-German by Gillian B. Elliott

Jake Morrissey. _Goettliches Design, oder: die Rivalen von Rom-- Bernini und Borromini im Kampf um die Architektur in der Ewigen Stadt_. Hamburg: Europa Verlag, 2005. 280 S. EUR 19.90 (kartoniert), ISBN 3-203-80014-4.
Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Arne Karsten



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Keith Moxey. _Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation_. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 166 p. $20.00 (paper), ISBN 0-226-54392-7.
Reviewed for H-German by David Mayes

David Nicholas. _Urban Europe, 1100-1700_. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xii + 239 pp. $95.00 (cloth),$27.95 (paper), ISBN 0-333-94982-X,0-333-94983-8.
Reviewed for H-Urban by Michael Limberger

Sheilagh Ogilvie and Richard Overy, eds. _Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Volume 3--Since 1800_. London: Arnold, 2003. xvii + 430 pp. $74.00 (cloth),$27.50 (paper), ISBN 0-3406- 3214-4,0-3406-5215-2.
Reviewed for H-German by L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline

David Ormrod. _The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 400 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-81926-1.
Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Donald J. Harreld

Joachim Poeschke. _Wandmalereien der Giottozeit in Italien 1280- 1400: Aufnahmen von Antonio Quattrone und Ghigo Roli_. Muenchen: Hirmer, 2003. 456 S. EUR 132.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-7774-9800-9.
Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Sabine Poeschel

Sara S. Poor. _Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 333 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3802-8.
Reviewed for H-German by Andrew D. Ganaway

Susanne Rau and Gerd Schwerhoff, eds. _Zwischen Gotteshaus und Taverne: Oeffentliche Raeume in Spaetmittelalter und Frueher Neuzeit_. Cologne: Boehlau Verlag, 2004. 481 pp. EUR 54.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-4121-3203-9.
Reviewed for H-German by Jay Goodale



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Marcus Rediker. _Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age_. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. 240 pp. $24.00 (cloth),$16.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8070-5024-5,0-8070-5924-3.
Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Kevin P. McDonald

John Phillip Reid. _Rule of Law: The Jurisprudence of Liberty in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries_. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. 150 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 0- 87580-327-X.
Reviewed for H-Law by Howard Nenner

Christine Reinle. _Bauernfehden: Studien zur Fehdefuehrung Nichtadliger im spaetmittelalterlichen roemisch-deutschen Reich, besonders in den bayerischen Herzogtuemern_. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 589 pp. EUR 98.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-515- 07840-1.
Reviewed for H-German by David Luebke

Joerg Rogge, Uwe Schirmer, Hg. _Hochadelige Herrschaft im mitteldeutschen Raum (1200 bis 1600): Formen--Legitimation-- Repraesentation_. Leipzig: Verlag der Saechsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2003. 506 pp. EUR 75.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-515-08245-X.
Reviewed for H-German by Patrizio Foresta

Alison Rowlands. _Witchcraft Narratives in Germany, Rothenburg, 1561-1652_. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. ii + 248 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7190-5259-9.
Reviewed for H-German by Kathryn A. Edwards

Ulinka Rublack. _Reformation Europe._ _New Approaches to European History Series._ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 208 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-80284-9; $22.99 (paper), ISBN 0-521-00369-5.
Reviewed for H-HRE by Amy R. Caldwell



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Michael Schaefer. _Buergertum in der Krise: Staedtische Mittelklassen in Edinburgh und Leipzig von 1890 bis 1930_. Buergertum: Beitraege zur europaeischen Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2003. 456 pp. EUR 64.00 (paper), ISBN 3-525-35688-9.
Reviewed for H-German by Marynel Ryan

Jonathan Schorsch. _Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii + 546 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-82021-9.
Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

Daniel Lord Smail. _The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 277 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-4105-6.
Reviewed for H-Law by Fredric L. Cheyette

Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld. _Cautio Criminalis, or a Book on Witch Trials_. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xxxvii + 233 pp. $49.50 (cloth),$18.50 (paper), ISBN 0- 8139-2181-3,0-8139-2182-1.
Reviewed for H-German by Kathryn A. Edwards

Mark Taplin. _The Italian Reformers and the Zurich Church, c1540- 1620_. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xiii + 368 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7546-0978-2.
Reviewed for H-German by Amy R. Caldwell

Manfred Wilde. _Die Zauberei- und Hexenprozesse in Kursachsen_. Koeln and Weimar: Boehlau Verlag, 2003. 734 Seiten. EUR =69.00 (broschiert), ISBN 3-412-10602-X.
Reviewed for H-German by Rainer Decker

Denis Wood. _Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land_. New York: Guilford Press, 2004. 336 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 1-57230-958-X.
Reviewed for H-Environment by This Rutishauser





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