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Jiang says the Holy Roman Empire arises after the western empire's fall through Charlemagne's unification of Europe and lasts into the Napoleonic era.
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Charlemagne
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...broken into different kingdoms. Different factions. And about the year 800, Charlemagne of the Franks will unite all of Europe and create something called..."
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Jiang presents Charlemagne as the turning point where the church re-enters temporal politics by anointing a new emperor, which then produces the factional struggle between papal and imperial power that enrages Dante.
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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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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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"...broken into different kingdoms. Different factions. And about the year 800, Charlemagne of the Franks will unite all of Europe and create something called..."
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"...it doesn't care who's king this is why in year 800 charlemagne is a problem because charlemagne wants to have the authority of catholic..."
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"The Holy Roman Empire is fighting to figure out who will be pope. That's not a temporal issue, that's not a worldly issue. The..."
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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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