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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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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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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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"...of the Franks, he is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope, okay? And from now on, it is the Catholic Church, the Pope,..."
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"...this explains why Charlemagne would want to be crowned by the pope. Because the pope did have legitimacy. He did have authority. Because the..."
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"...think that you could go back to 1200s and find the Pope in Rome inciting German and Latvian nobles to conduct military campaigns into..."
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"...in other religions where, listen, if you want to kill the Pope, the Catholics would be really angry at you. And they would want..."
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"...what he will do is he will split off from the Pope because the Henry VIII like most Monarchs in in Europe they want..."
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"...you are a king and you don't obey the church, the Pope can excommunicate you, which is to say, I remove you from the..."
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"...Celtic Turks, okay? The Ottoman Empire. All right, and that's why Pope Urban II would eventually call for the crusade to liberate the Holy..."
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"Okay, so this is Pope Urban II saying the crusades. It's to go and fight the demons. If you fight a demon, it doesn't..."
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"...see the Muslims and the Jews as demons. That's what the Pope taught them. One organization that developed during the crusades is called the..."
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"...And the priests are the representatives of God on earth. The Pope has supreme authority. Okay? Yes?"
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"So if the Pope tells you to take pride in being a part of the Church, you can't be, like, you are allowed?"
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"The Pope is the Word of God. Whatever the Pope says is the Word of God. Okay? Okay, it's that simple."
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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 Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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