Henry II's frontier diocese of 1007 grew into a Franconian state whose bishops ranked next after Mainz — and whose 17th-century witch trials were among the deadliest in Europe.
Occupied by Bavarian troops in 1802 and annexed to Bavaria by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 25 February 1803.
Polity-specific: the Bamberg witch trials and how imperial courts curbed a prince-bishop's jurisdiction.
Imperial immediacy, the Franconian Circle and the 1803 mediatization.