Discontinuities : political transformation, media change, and the city in the Holy Roman Empire from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries / Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz -- Overloaded interaction : effects of the increasing growing use of writing in German imperial cities, 1500-1800 / Alexander Schlaak -- Benjamin Marschke, le caractere bizarre : princes' power, aristocratic norms -- And personal eccentricities : the case of Frederick William I of Prussia (1713-1740) / Benjamin Marschke -- The illuminated reich : memory, crisis, and the visibility of monarchy in late medieval Germany / Len Scales -- The production of knowledge about confessions : witnesses and their testimonies about normative years in and after the Thirty Years' War / Ralf-Peter Fuchs -- Staging individual rank and corporate identity : pre-modern nobilities in provincial politics / Elizabeth Harding -- The importance of being seated : ceremonial conflict in territorial diets / Tim Neu -- Ceremony and dissent : religion, procedural conflicts, and the "fiction of consensus" in seventeenth-century Germany / David Luebke -- Contested bodies : Schwäbisch Hall and its neighbors in the conflicts regarding high jurisdiction (1550-1800) / Patrick Oelze -- Conflict and consensus around German princes' unequal marriages : prince's autonomy, emperor's intervention, and the juridification of dynastic politics / Michael Sikora -- Power and good governance : the removal of ruling princes in the Holy Roman Empire, 1680-1794 / Werner Trossbach -- Marital affairs as a public matter within the Holy Roman Empire : the case of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg and his wife Duchess Sabine of Württemberg at the beginning of the sixteenth century / Michaela Hohkamp -- The corpus evangelicorum : a culturalist perspective on its procedure in the eighteenth-century Holy Roman Empire / Andreas Kalipke -- Gallican longings : church and nation in eighteenth-century Germany / Michael Printy -- Conclusion : new directions in the study of the Holy Roman Empire : a cultural approach / Andre Krisher.