Holy Roman Emperor

Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, greatly impacted Ancient Rome through his role as Emperor of Western Europe. Through art and culture Charlemagne’s traditions still exist today. In order to understand his impact it is crucial to learn his background, time as a ruler, effect on Ancient Rome, the Carolingian renaissance, and traditions that exist today. Just like any other ruler, Charlemagne had to start somewhere. Unfortunately the exact date of Charlemagne’s birth is unknown,…

Around 476 AD, the Roman empire witnessed its own decline and fall. The Germanic tribes near the area each took a shot at the extensive kingdom and eventually, the Roman empire was weakened and finished off. Although the empire was gone, aspects of it were scattered throughout Europe. From around 481 to 511 AD, a Germanic leader by the name of Clovis began to unite a group of Germanic people, the Franks, under one empire and saw an opportunity to grow and flourish (Doc A). The Franks, and its…

evangelists and shares similar characteristics with Byzantine art, it draws upon the characteristic of being flat and adorns with a wide color pallet. Shown seated, crowned, and holding a golden orb and scepter, emperor Otto the 3rd stares at man with hypnotic eyes, showing as Holy Roman emperor dressed in green and…

division between the ruler and the court, which might conduct royal business from several fixed places. The Carolingian empire construction of a network of regional centres of power appears to offer an instance of contrasts from the decentralized post roman world.^137 Charlemagne himself seems to have traveled surprisingly little outside the heart of his realm in the Rhine-Moselle region, with the exception of his visits to Rome, of which must have required a sophisticated network of…

The Habsburg family was a major power throughout Europe for nearly 750 years. They managed to move themselves up from being just a family with a castle to one of the largest empires Europe has ever seen. Throughout their reign, the family saw some losses of land, but many more gains. They fought battles against their major enemies, the French and the Ottomans. They married nearly every royal family in Europe, until there was no more room left to expand. With hard work and intelligence, the…

Charlemagne was the King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 until his death in 814. He expanded his kingdom to an empire, uniting most of west Europe. The Carolingian Renaissance is associated with his reign, a time when art and culture was revived through the Catholic Church, which encouraged a common European identity. Chapter 1 who is Charlemagne? He is the King of Franks; he was the greatest ruler in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Charlemagne means Charles…

Herodotus and Sima Qian are known as two of the greatest historians of their time. In comparing each of their writings several different roles that women were meant to fill become clear. Although these vastly different cultures had limited contact, women in Greece and China were very similar during this time period. Each writer gives distinct evidence of women fulfilling, or denying the roles placed upon them as wives, mothers, daughters, oracles, soldiers, commanders, gifts, property, and…

On October 31st, 1517, a German, Roman Catholic priest named Martin Luther made public his critiques of the Roman Catholic Church in a document called “Ninety-Five Theses”. From this document, came three more pamphlets criticizes the authority and hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, “including the papacy, as corrupt and immoral, and questioned its right to rule over Christians and interpret Holy Scripture” (Carter and Warren, 75). As you can tell, Luther threw some pretty hefty accusations…

Crusades were a series of bloody wars during the middle ages where the Christians of Europe tried to retake control of Jerusalem. In Christianity, the crusades were expeditions of Christian Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries for the recovery of the holy land (Chrisholm 44). They were a time of religion, war and religious war leaders. Crusaders were brutal people mostly made up of young, old and poor people. Historians have estimated that there were seven crusades total that resulted in…

fact that it is hard to describe three aspects of God yet say he is still one. Many early Christian groups focused on the authority of Jesus compared to God focusing on his human aspects creating confusion. The Nicaea counsel took place within the Roman Empire presented the controversy regarding debates about the Son between the Arians and Proto-Orthodoxy. The argument between the Arians and Proto-Orthodoxy is not about the existence of the Trinity, but it focuses on if Jesus was begotten or…