What was the silliest thing about the Holy Roman Empire, /his/? I imagine this gigantic clump of city-states, duchies and whatever else must have attracted some snide comments from contemporaneous figures of its era.
There is literally nothing silly about the Holy Roman Empire.
>>1186634
What made them holy, roman, or an empire?
>Your typical Voltaire poster
>>1186634
>europe will never look this glorious again
Now it's all "muh blobbs muh blobbs. da bigger da beter!! ebin grosspreussen!!"
>>1186643
The investiture of the empire was granted by the Pope and therefore by God.
It started out with a strong centralized figure Charlemagne but over time decentralized leaving the emperor with less and less direct power. Kind of like 'muh states rights' in the US.
It was Roman because the pope intended it to be its successor and initially included most of Italy. However, by 1450s the empire lost control over most of Italy.
>>1186655
Charlemagne didn't found the Holy Roman empire though
>>1186687
It's that typical European thing where they can have a government change every four years, but by some origin spiel, they're thousands of years old even if their whole identity and government has changed.
>>1186687
The term Holy Roman Empire appears in the 13th century for the first time. Charlemagne was the one who started the whole continuation of the Roman Empire idea with his coronation in 800.
>>1186638
Aside from being none of the three things its name claims it is?
>>1187214
Rephrase your post please. I want to support your view but cannot do so unless it includes any sort of reference to a quote by a French philosopher.
I wonder what Voltaire would have said if he knew that he'd end up as a meme on a Syrian podcast radio ham comment section
>>1187980
>look mom, I said Japanese Cartoon Image Board in a funny way again!
>>1187992
>thinking you're somehow superior to others on an American hentai forum
>>1188063
>tfw people who take these kind of pictures actually exist
