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Holy Roman Empire in the 1190s (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_oduuZ8VJ8

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

*notices the Bohemian Lion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you want to assassinate a graphic designer by giving them a heart attack, aneurysm and an anaphylactic shock all at once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Is this [email protected] ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

🤮

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Believe you me, you are not alone.

Then there's what some guy wrote and the quote became famous, I paraphrase - "The Holy Roman Empire is none of the above", or maybe it was "The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was Voltaire: "The HRE is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I think in 1190 it was still all of those things though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

… talk amongst yourselves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

and Voltaire was wrong. It was "Holy" as in the pope had no authority over it, as it is "Holy" already. "Roman" as it larps to be Roman from time to time and "Empire", because it was an actual Empire.