BOOK (open access): G. Braun, The knowledge of the Holy Roman Empire in France from Baroque to Enlightenment, 1648-1756 (Pariser Historische Studien; 91)

The German Historical Institute in Paris has put some recent volumes from its book series Pariser Historische Studien online (click here), among which the dissertation of Dr. Dr. Guido Braun (Akademischer Rat, Univ. of Cologne), La connaissance du Saint-Empire en France du baroque aux Lumières 1643–1756 (911 p.). The work is a study of the dissemination of German public law doctrine in the 17th and 18th centuries, starting from a blended political, legal and cultural approach.

The book series, as well as the journal Francia: Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte (open access) can be found on perspectivia.net, the platform of the Max Weber Foundation and the German Humanities Institutes abroad.