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The post-Roman political formation Jiang says Charlemagne founds and that later Christianity supersedes as the dominant force.
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Holy Roman Empire
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...will unite all of Europe and create something called the Holy Roman Empire. And the Holy Roman Empire will last until who? Did you..."
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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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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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Jiang says that by Dante's time the legacy of Rome has been misused for political gain, with church and empire entangled in European geopolitics rather than serving their proper spiritual purpose.
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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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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.
definition
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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"...will unite all of Europe and create something called the Holy Roman Empire. And the Holy Roman Empire will last until who? Did you..."
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"So the Holy Roman Empire lasts for a long, long time. And from the perspective of dominant Europeans, this is all the stability, the..."
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"...it to him the pope anoints him emperor of the holy roman empire right you don't have soil in here holy then you need..."
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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 jews betrayal of jesus keep on going and when the lombard tooth bit holy church then charlemagne under the eagle's wings through victories..."
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"...so i said before that with the birth of the holy roman empire the church becomes embroiled in european geopolitics and this leads to..."
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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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