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[[File:1512 Holy Roman Empire Germania.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.35|Personifikasi Reich sebagai [[Germania (personifikasi)|Jermania]], Lukisan karya [[:de:Jörg Kölderer|Jörg Kölderer]], tahun 1512. "Perempuan Jerman" dengan rambut terurai dan bermahkota, bersemayam di atas singgasana kekaisaran, kiasan citra diri Maximilian I selaku Raja Jerman maupun rumusan ''Kekaisaran Romawi Suci Bangsa Jerman'' (meniadakan bangsa-bangsa lain). Meskipun pada Abad Pertengahan biasanya digambarkan tunduk di bawah kekuasaan kaisar dan Italia atau Galia, kini ia diberi tempat yang paling utama di dalam [[Pawai Kemenangan]] Maximilian, diusung di depan [[c:File:Roma in Maximilian'sTriumphal Procession.jpg|Roma]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Strieder |first=Peter |date=8 May 2017 |title=Zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Dürers Ehrenpforte für Kaiser Maximilian |url=https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/azgnm/article/view/38143/31806 |journal=Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums |pages=128–142 Seiten |doi=10.11588/azgnm.1954.0.38143 |access-date=7 Februari 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hirschi |first=Caspar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_v4iySQgnsC&pg=PA45 |title=The Origins of Nationalism: An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany |date=8 December 2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-1395-0230-6 |page=45 |language=en |access-date=7 Februari 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Brandt |first=Bettina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJLM607h6jsC&pg=PA37 |title=Germania und ihre Söhne: Repräsentationen von Nation, Geschlecht und Politik in der Moderne |date=2010 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-5253-6710-0 |page=37 |language=de |access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref>]]
Maximilian maupun Karel V (meskipun pada hakikatnya kedua kaisar ini berjiwa internasionalis<ref>{{Cite book |last=Albert |first=Rabil Jr. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w1ErEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA137 |title=Renaissance Humanism, Jilid 2: Foundations, Forms, and Legacy |date=11 November 2016 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-1-5128-0576-5 |language=en |access-date=5 Februari 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Quevedo |first1=Francisco de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ciwDEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 |title=Francisco de Quevedo: Dreams and Discourses |last2=Britton |first2=R. K. |date=1 January 1989 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-8003-4588-1 |language=en |access-date=5 Februari 2022}}</ref>) adalah tokoh-tokoh yang pertama kali mengangkat wacana bangsa, yang disamakan dengan Reich oleh kaum humanis pada masa itu.{{Sfn|Whaley|2011|p=278}} Dengan dorongan dari Maximilian dan para humanisnya, sosok-sosok spiritual ternama kembali diketengahkan atau kembali memasyarakat. Para humanis menemukan kembali risalah ''[[Germania (buku)|Jermania]]'', karya tulis pujangga Tacitus. Menurut Peter H. Wilson, sosok perempuan yang dinamakan [[Germania (personifikasi)|Jermania]] adalah sosok yang direka ulang Kaisar Maximilian menjadi Bunda Kekaisaran Romawi Suci Bangsa Jerman yang berbudi luhur lagi cinta damai.{{Sfn|Wilson|2016|p=263}} Whaley menduga bahwa, meskipun kemudian hari timbul perpecahan akibat perbedaan agama, "motif-motif cintakecintaan kepada tanah air ditumbuhkembangkanditumbuhsuburkan pada masa pemerintahan Maximilian, baik yang ditumbuhkembangkan oleh Maximilian sendiri maupun oleh para sastrawan humanis yang tanggap terhadap kebijakannya tersebut, melahirkan inti sari sebuah budaya politik kebangsaan."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Whaley |first=Joachim |date=2009 |title=Whaley on Silver, 'Marketing Maximilian: the Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor' {{!}} H-German {{!}} H-Net |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/45722/whaley-silver-marketing-maximilian-visual-ideology-holy-roman-emperor |journal=Networks.h-net.org |access-date=5 Februari 2022}}</ref><!--
Pada masa pemerintahan Maximilian jugalahpula ragam umum bahasa Jerman berangsur-angsur mengemukatampil menonjol, terutama berkat jasa lembagajawatan thetata imperialusaha chancerynegara anddan thejawatan chancerytata ofusaha thepemerintahan Wettindaerah Electorbawahan [[FrederickFriedrich III, Electordari of SaxonySachsen|FrederickFriedrich the WiseBijaksana]], Pangreh Praja Pemilih dari wangsa Wettin.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tennant |first1=Elaine C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdIDcGyUcN4C&pg=PA3 |title=The Habsburg Chancery Language in Perspective, Volume 114 |last2=Johnson |first2=Carroll B. |date=1985 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-5200-9694-3 |pages=1, 3, 9 |access-date=21 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927161255/https://books.google.com/books?id=JdIDcGyUcN4C&pg=PA3 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wiesinger |first=Peter |title=Die Entwicklung der deutschen Schriftsprache vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert unter dem Einfluss der Konfessionen |url=http://www.e-scoala.ro/germana/peter_wiesinger.html |url-status=dead |journal=Zeitschrift der Germanisten Rumäniens (ZGR) |issue=17–18 / 2000 (9th year) |pages=155–162 |doi=10.1515/jbgsg-2018-0014 |s2cid=186566355 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123112609/http://www.e-scoala.ro/germana/peter_wiesinger.html |archive-date=23 January 2008 |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> The development of the printing industry together with the emergence of the postal system ([[Kaiserliche Reichspost|the first modern one in the world]]<ref name="Meinel 2014 31">{{Cite book |last1=Meinel |first1=Christoph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5O25BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |title=Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, Security |last2=Sack |first2=Harald |date=2014 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-6425-4331-9 |page=31 |access-date=20 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926235052/https://books.google.com/books?id=5O25BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>), initiated by Maximilian himself with contribution from Frederick III and [[Charles the Bold]], led to a revolution in communication and allowed ideas to spread. Unlike the situation in more centralized countries, the decentralized nature of the Empire made censorship difficult.<ref name="Metzig">{{Cite book |last=Metzig |first=Gregor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiyXDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 |title=Kommunikation und Konfrontation: Diplomatie und Gesandtschaftswesen Kaiser Maximilians I. (1486–1519) |date=21 November 2016 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-1104-5673-8 |pages=98, 99 |language=de |access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Hamish M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL8DCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1995-9725-3 |page=173 |language=en |access-date=12 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Headrick |first=Daniel R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRBPvOAiQmUC&pg=PA184 |title=When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700–1850 |date=28 December 2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1980-3108-6 |page=184 |language=en |access-date=12 December 2021}}</ref>{{Sfn|Whaley|2011|p=370}}
Terence McIntosh comments bahwa kebijakan agresif ekspansionis yang dijalankan Kaisar Maximilian I dan Kaisar Karel V at the inception of the early modern German nation (although not to further the aims specific to the German nation per se), relying on German manpower as well as utilizing fearsome [[Landsknecht]]e and mercenaries, would affect the way neighbours viewed the German polity, although in the longue durée, Germany tended to be at peace.<ref>{{Cite web |title=H-German Roundtable on Smith, Germany: A Nation in Its Time Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000 {{!}} H-German {{!}} H-Net |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/discussions/9589141/h-german-roundtable-smith-germany-nation-its-time-during-and |access-date=5 February 2022 |website=networks.h-net.org}}</ref>
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