Empire-fitting systems of government : from the Holy Roman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy
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Against the retrospective view of empire as both an economic and political subjugating process, this article aims at exploring the constant tension between a kind of sovereignty built up with pretences or political ambition and the move towards universality and a territorial form of government. Observing the intertwined facets of the Holy German Empire and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy, this paper comes back to representations of a power system that concomitantly modify the European concept of empire and the practices of imperial government.
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