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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So it's not holy. Everyone pretends the church is in charge but it's not really. Okay? Roman. So the authority of the Catholic Church..."
The Holy Roman Empire was not truly Roman because the Catholic Church imitated Roman bureaucracy and Senate-like legitimacy, but Jiang says Roman culture had already died, beginning with universal citizenship in 212.
"So it's not holy. Everyone pretends the church is in charge but it's not really. Okay? Roman. So the authority of the Catholic Church..."
The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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