‘Equality exists in Valhalla’
Richard J. Evans: German Histories, 4 December 2014
Germany: Memories of a Nation
by Neil MacGregor.
Allen Lane, 598 pp., £30, November 2014,978 0 241 00833 1 Show More
by Neil MacGregor.
Allen Lane, 598 pp., £30, November 2014,
“... printing press is displayed alongside a first edition of the Bible translated into German by Martin Luther. All of this testifies to a flourishing urban cultural life in the late medieval and early modern period. The Holy Roman Empire and its elaborate judicial, administrative and electoral institutions held things together only in a limited sense, as a ... ”