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HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR
R. W. SETON-WATSON
Commoner of New College Oxford
"Mein Ehr ist deutsch Ehr und deutsch Ehr ist mein Ehr"
WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS 1902
BUTLER & TANNER, THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS, FROME, AND LONDON.
PREFATORY NOTE
No apology seems necessary for illustrating such an essay as the present, save that it is an innovation. No one now denies the value of portraits in rendering history more vivid; and it might be argued that an essay dealing with a personality requires illustration more, not less, than important historical studies.
The Imperial Arms of Maximilian, which appear upon the cover, are taken from Sir David Lindsay's Scottish Heraldic Manuscript.
But for a prolonged illness the essay would have undergone a much more thorough revision.
Index
There is a peculiar difficulty in bridging over long periods of history, and in clearing our minds of the habits and prejudices of to-day, before we criticize characters and events which belong to distant periods and other lands. This difficulty, in spite of the strange charm which encourages us to surmount it, makes itself all the more felt in a Transition Period, such as the close of the fifteenth, and the dawn of the sixteenth century. The breath of new ideas is in the air.
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