The time was out of joint in a very literal sense of that somewhat hackneyed phrase. Every established institution – political, social, and religious – was shaken and showed the rents and fissures caused by time and by the growth of a new life underneath it. The empire – the Holy Roman – was in a parlous way as regarded its cohesion. The power of the princes, the representatives of local centralised authority, was proving itself too strong for the power of the emperor, the recognised representative of centralised authority for the whole German-speaking world.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 276 ● ISBN 9781537810003 ● Dimensione 0.5 MB ● Casa editrice Jovian Press ● Città Vachendorf ● Paese DE ● Pubblicato 2018 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5570056 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale