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Charlemagne’s coronation makes public legitimacy depend on papal anointing: the Holy Roman Emperor is treated as chosen by God through the Church.
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Charlemagne
Rome and Charlemagne create the Holy Roman Empire as a competitor to Byzantium and as a mechanism for securing Roman church legitimacy against other major churches.
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After Rome, wealth was not simply gone; Jiang says it became distributed, then reconcentrated in monasteries as Charlemagne's kingdoms arose.
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The papal coronation of Charlemagne in 800 marked a Western turning point because the pope, rather than the emperor, now anointed the monarch.
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The pope's authority mattered to Charlemagne because many European kings were Catholic and papal recognition could win hearts and minds where force could not.
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Rome and Charlemagne create the Holy Roman Empire as a competitor to Byzantium and as a mechanism for securing Roman church legitimacy against other major churches.
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Charlemagne's three reasons for accepting the Holy Roman Empire are legitimacy, unity, and differentiation, which Jiang compares to King David and Augustus using sacred or epic texts.
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Pope Leo crowned Charlemagne to assert papal authority, gain military protection from internal enemies, and compete with Byzantium over the legacy of Rome.
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Charlemagne loved City of God enough to have it read to him daily, making it the official text and intellectual framework of the Holy Roman Empire.
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"...the Catholic Church on your side, right? So, in about 800, Charlemagne, who is the king of the Franks, he is crowned Holy Roman..."
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"...much more distributed. But as these kingdoms start to arise under Charlemagne, then wealth became much more concentrated. Okay? So these monasteries, they are..."
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"...Empire was started in the year 800, when the Frankish king, Charlemagne, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome."
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"...the Catholic Church. Historians have debated for a long time why Charlemagne would agree to such an arrangement. And so, this is the topic..."
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"...must win their hearts and minds. Okay? And this explains why Charlemagne would want to be crowned by the pope. Because the pope did..."
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"...wants to regain its lost authority. Okay? And, that's why when Charlemagne comes along, the Church sees Charlemagne as the perfect opportunity to reassert..."
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"All right? And this will eventually climax in something called the Great Schism. The Great Schism. And we'll study this later on. The idea..."
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"...let's summarize, okay? Let's go back to the year 800 when Charlemagne, he's in St. Peter's Basilica, and he's being crowned Holy Roman Empire..."
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"...or heretic. Differentiation. We are not the Byzantine Empire, okay? So, Charlemagne is trying to create legitimacy, unity, and differentiation with the Holy Roman..."
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"...this will lead to civil conflict. So, before Pope Leo made Charlemagne emperor, he was almost assassinated by his enemies, right? So, by making..."
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"In other words Charlemagne and Leo worked together to create the Holy Roman Empire in order to achieve Augustine's vision of heaven on earth...."
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"...authority and legitimacy to whoever comes into power, like for example, Charlemagne, okay? So that's what Augustine is proposing."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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