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Description
Applied to the Holy Roman Empire before and during the Thirty Years' War, the concept of a polycentric, multi-level system helps explain its remarkable resilience in the face of growing centrifugal forces since the late sixteenth century. At the same time, it provides a coherent framework for analysing the mechanisms that, after 1618, led to the multi-level collapse of imperial systems of interaction. Finally, the model makes it possible to identify those levels of resource distribution and political interaction that remained partially or fully functional throughout the conflict.
Claire Gantet is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her current research focuses on the environmental history of the Thirty Years' War and on the process of pacification.
Thomas Lau is Titular Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His research focuses on Swiss history, the history of the Holy Roman Empire, Reformation history, the history of gender, the history of nationalism and urban history.
