Ebook: Weltliche Herrschaft in geistlicher Hand: Die Germania Sacra im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

The exercise of worldly power by Church institutions is among the characteristic features of the Holy Roman Empire and its constitution. Bishops, abbots, and abbesses represented both ecclesiastical and secular authority. This volume examines the details of worldly rule in religious hands in the 17^th and 18^th centuries, and is organized according to the broader themes of "Constitution," "Self-Conception," "Representation," and "The Economy."