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Aristokles wrote:
Yes, hardly anything 'great' about Charles "the Great"...
But the popes should not have blessed that Holy Roman Empire thing, meant to counter the REAL Empire (and usurp it's western jurisdiction, even if not active).
There\'s a reason why, whenever I\'m speaking of medieval history, I always call the HRE the \"Holy\" \"Roman\" \"Empire\", complete with air quotes. It wasn\'t really any of those three things :-)
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