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The Holy Roman Empire was holy only as pageantry: pope and king benefited from pretending the church was in charge because the performance conferred legitimacy and unity.
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The Holy Roman Empire was holy only as pageantry: pope and king benefited from pretending the church was in charge because the performance conferred legitimacy and unity.
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"...Catholic Church is really the power in charge. But that's just pageantry. That's the fiction. Okay? The entire Holy Roman Empire is a useful..."
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"And after Charlemagne what we'll see is that they don't get along. Because the pope insists on having power over the emperor. The emperor..."
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"...that's very important. What's really important, and why they have this pageantry or ritual in the funeral process is, it's really about memorizing that..."
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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