2) The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t holy, wasn’t roman, and wasn’t an empire. It was a confederation of germanic peoples and their micro-states, under an emperor, under manorial law for serfs, germanic rule of law for freemen, church as a weak judiciary for states, and emperor-judge.
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1) Germanic political civilization begins with the Frankish nobility’s attempt to restore Roman order in Europe in the 600’s. Anglo civilization was part of germanic civilization until about 1830 or so b/c of Napoleon’s ‘total war’ on european civilization: The Holy Roman Empire.
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