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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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Holy Roman Empire
Napoleon's conquest and replacement of the Holy Roman Empire with the Confederation of the Rhine humiliated German intellectuals and pushed them to invent a German national identity.
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Napoleon's conquest and replacement of the Holy Roman Empire with the Confederation of the Rhine humiliated German intellectuals and pushed them to invent a German national identity.
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Luther succeeds where earlier critics failed because Holy Roman Empire princes use his critique as a pretext for autonomy and financial divorce from Rome.
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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 Holy Roman Empire should be understood as an elected confederation or alliance, not a hereditary empire with durable centralized control.
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The empire's continued existence on paper depended on the pretense of empire because the title and Catholic Church conferred legitimacy even when territorial or military unity failed.
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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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Jiang explicitly teaches that ideas move history, and introduces Augustine's City of God as the idea-source for the Holy Roman Empire.
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"...negotiation going on, but in public, for the public, the Holy Roman Empire is always anointed by God, okay? This is Charlemagne, and today,..."
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"...Roman Emperor. Okay? He should be made Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as is tradition. But the Emperor at that time, decides, you..."
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"...for a thousand years. Okay? Ever since Charlemagne. And the Holy Roman Empire is direct here to the Roman Empire. Okay? So for a..."
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"...he has powerful political patrons. The various princes of the Holy Roman Empire want more autonomy from the Catholic Church, and Martin Luther gives..."
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"Okay, good morning. So, today we are doing the Holy Roman Empire. Now, last class we did the Byzantine Empire, which is considered the..."
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"And this marked a turning point in Western history, because this was really the first time that the pope could anoint a monarch. Before,..."
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"...Empire at the time of Charlemagne when he creates the Holy Roman Empire. But again, because this is not really an empire, it's more..."
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"...matters the most is legitimacy. And the idea of the Holy Roman Empire gives legitimacy, confers legitimacy, mainly through the Catholic Church. Okay? Does..."
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"...so, they work together to create the idea of the Holy Roman Empire as a competitor to the Byzantine Empire and as a mechanism..."
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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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"...want to show you also, that the idea of the Holy Roman Empire comes from Augustine, okay? One thing that you will learn in..."
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"...of God in other words becomes the basis of the Holy Roman Empire."
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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 Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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