Emperors and Imperial Discourse in Italy, c. 1300-1500 New Perspectives

• Other Authors: Huijbers, Anne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Rome Publications de l'École française de Rome 2022
• Series: Collection de l'École française de Rome
• Subjects: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Holy Roman Empire; Imperial discourse; political discourse; XIIIth-XVI centuries
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Describing the Holy Roman Empire after 1250 as a hopeless dream or an empty formula only Roman in name, historians have long minimized the impact of the imperial presence in late-medieval Italy. The nationalist historiography, on which we still largely depend, presented the Empire as alien to the ve...