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As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant

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For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was bec

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