A Question of Right: Hermann Conring's New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor
In his New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor Hermann Conring (1606-1681) argued that the Roman Empire had disappeared from the face of the earth or had at least been reduced to a sorry remnant in the hands of the papacy. Germany was a modern state that existed on entirely independent foundations...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1997
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1997, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 739-758 |
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| Summary: | In his New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor Hermann Conring (1606-1681) argued that the Roman Empire had disappeared from the face of the earth or had at least been reduced to a sorry remnant in the hands of the papacy. Germany was a modern state that existed on entirely independent foundations. Conring's analysis helped to restore a lasting political order without reinvoking principles of universal governance that the Reformation had effectively destroyed. In spite of its brevity and disputed authorship, the New Discourse can thus serve as an introduction to one of the main turns on the road from medieval to modern conceptions of political order. Its success raises two questions: Is the history that Conring deployed to make his case still worth telling? And how are we to explain its success in the first place? The answers to those question go beyond the limits of this article. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2542989 |