詹姆斯·布赖斯（1838-1922），出生于北爱尔兰，是一位学识博洽，见解深邃的历史学家，同时还是一位政治理论家和政治活动家。除出版《神圣罗马帝国》一书奠定其学术地位，为其树立了历史家的地位以外，他发表的《美利坚共和国》也极负盛名，被视为外国人论述美国的经典著作之一。此外，所著《现代民主制度》也使作者享有盛誉。

Over the last forty years or so, research on the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (1495-1806) has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Once derided as a political non-entity, a chaotic assemblage of countless principalities and statelets that lacked coercive power and was stifled by encrusted structures and procedures, the Reich has been fully rehab...(展开全部)

The Holy Roman Empire lasted for over a millennium, yet its development and institutions are still commonly dismissed as largely irrelevant to broader historical issues. Recent scholarship challenges this view but until now has failed to provide a convincing interpretation of the political structure which provided the framework within which such major events as the Reformation ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 约阿希姆·惠利（Joachim Whaley），剑桥大学德国历史与思想教授，冈维尔和凯斯学院研究员。主要教授1500年以来的德国历史和文化以及当代德国政治。著有《1529—1819年汉堡的宗教宽容和社会变革》（1985）《1493—1806年的德意志与神圣罗马帝国》（2012），并以英德双语发表过多篇论文。1984年成为皇家历史学会会员，2015年被选为英国国家学术院院士。 序言作者简介： 王涛，南京大学历史学院教授、副院长、博士生导师，主要研究领域涉及教会史、德国史、数字史学等方向。主讲数字工具与世界史研究、德国史、基督教文明史、影像中的世界史等课程，曾获南京大学青年教师人文科研原创奖、第二届日知世界史奖青年奖等奖项。著有《主教的书信空间》，译作《喧嚣时代：20世纪全球史》。

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Hugely impressive... Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a gre...(展开全部)

The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual na...(展开全部)

In the early modern period the Holy Roman Empire, or Reich, was one of the oldest and largest European states. Its importance was magnified by its location at the heart of the continent, by the extensive international connections of its leading families, and by the involvement of foreign rulers in its governance. This book breaks new ground in its collective exploration of aspe...(展开全部)

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted b...(展开全部)

J. B. 伯里（John Bagnell Bury，1861—1927），英国著名历史学家、古典学家和文献学家。学问渊博，著述等身，曾计划并参与《剑桥古代史》《剑桥中世纪史》《剑桥近代史》等书之编辑。1902年获任剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授。研究涉足古希腊史、古罗马史、19世纪教皇史、西方思想史等多个领域的研究，尤以晚期罗马帝国史和拜占庭史见长。其著作的范围从古代希腊史一直到19世纪的教会史。其代表作有《晚期罗马帝国：从阿卡狄乌斯到爱里尼》（A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene，1889年）、《希腊史：至亚历山大大帝去世》（A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great，1900年）、《东罗马帝国史：从爱...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔基姆·惠利,英国历史学者和语言学者,在剑桥大学教授德国历史和思想。1984 年当选英国皇家历史学会会员,2015年当选英国科学院院士。主要著作有《汉堡的宗教容忍和社会变化(1529~1819)》及两卷本《德意志与神圣罗马帝国》。 【译者简介】 李启明,英语译者,毕业于清华大学经济管理学院,经济学学士、理学学士。