I'm new on this board, can someone explain to me this Holy Roman Empire meme?
>>1119879
Yep
>>1119879
The "state" known as the Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. It was a confederation of German principalities with completely autonomous leaders ostensibly under an emperor but the emperors were just as powerful and politically relevant as Queen Elizabeth, and their empire was the was a lot like the EU, only even less centralized and ineffective in the policies of the actual polities that existed within it.
>>1119879
Idiots who haven't even read Voltaire misquote him on his opinion of the late HRE.
>holy
>>1119954
He was a pretentious comedian. There's nothing to get more than his whining and bantering.
>>1119879
It was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
>roman
>>1119879
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
>dozens of city states
>empire
>>1119879
It might have been Holy, it may well be considered Roman, and perhaps it can be understood as an Empire.
But no one is totally sure.
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>>1119879
Everything is here op
