The Holy Roman empire in German literature

Type:

Book

Author:

Edwin H. Zeydel

Published:

1918

Roman Empire, but in the course of the work it was found advisable to adopt the present broader, more euphonious title.This change, important as it may seem at first blush, is after all of minor significance, for the very nature of the subject tends to encourage an unfavorable, satirical attitude.Not only does this attitude gradually become predominant as time goes on, but it is also the most interesting angle from which the Holy Roman Empire could be considered.In the field of literary criticism two distinct types of subjectmatter may be distinguished, viz., the intensive and the ex- tensive, the former dealing in minute detail with some single phase of a given writer or group of writers, the latter treating synoptically a given phenomenon extending over a longer period of time.That works of the latter class, to which the present monograph belongs, cannot within reasonable scope achieve any great degree of completeness in the presentation of pertinent matter is quite apparent.I have therefore endeavored to offer only such material as seemed of intrinsic value.It is a privilege to acknowledge my great obligations to Pro- fessor Thomas for suggesting the subject, and for the aid and inspiration which he gave me

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