Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire - A Bio-bibliographical Handbook (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)

This handbook records more than 1300 Imperial Poets Laureate created within the Holy Roman Empire between 1355 and 1804, with a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. An extensive introduction sheds light on a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon.