Питер Х. Уилсон — библиография

A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czech Republic, its relations with Italy, France and Poland dictated the course of countless wars - indeed European history as a whole makes no sense without it. In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Empire worked. It is not a chronological history, but an attempt to convey to readers why it was so important and how…

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop.…

Desde su fundaci?n con Carlomagno hasta su destrucci?n, un milenio m?s tarde, a manos de Napole?n, el Sacro Imperio Romano Germ?nico, una entidad vasta y en constante expansi?n, tan antigua como ?nica, form? el coraz?n de Europa. Motor de invenciones e ideas, estuvo en el origen de muchos de los Estados modernos europeos, desde Alemania a la Rep?blica Checa, y sus relaciones con Italia, Francia y Polonia dictaron el curso de incontables guerras. La historia europea no tendr?a sentido sin ?l. En este sorprendentemente ambicioso libro, Peter H. Wilson aborda la tarea ingente de explicar el funcionamiento del Imperio no desde un punto de…

Kampf um Macht und Glauben: der Krieg, der Europa pr?gte Was mit dem Prager Fenstersturz im Mai 1618 begann, sollte sich zu einem jahrzehntelangen Konflikt auswachsen, der die religi?se und politische Landkarte Europas f?r immer ver?nderte: Der Drei?igj?hrige Krieg hinterlie? Millionen Tote und pr?gte die ?berlebenden f?r Generationen. Peter H. Wilson hat die unz?hligen Einzelstr?nge der Geschichte dieses Krieges kenntnisreich und detailliert zu einer Gesamtdarstellung verwoben. Ursachenforschung: europ?ische Machtverh?ltnisse am Vorabend des Kriegs „Nur“ ein Religionskrieg? Motivationen und Kriegsstrategien aus drei Jahrzehnten Kaiser,…