All About History Holy Roman Empire - December 2020

All About History: Holy Roman Empire  - December 2020

English | 132 pages | PDF | 142 mb



Forged by the iron will of Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Empire's birth in 800 CE signalled the beginning of a new era in a Europe that had been stumbling in the dark for centuries. By means of conquest, alliances and marriage, the continent's new power would come to encapsulate much of Western Europe, morphing into a disjointed network of states within which ruthless wars and reformations would be waged. But who where the empire's key figures? How did they rule? And why did this ambitious project ultimately fail? Turn the page to explore a realm that shaped Europe for over 1,000 years and left a legacy that still influences it today.



CONTENTS

8 Map of the empire

Father of Europe

12 Charlemagne

16 How to conquer the Saxons

18 Louis the Pious

Crusader Kings

24 Otto I

30 Frederick I Barbarossa

36 Frederick II - Hero or villain?

Reformation & Renaissance

42 The Renaissance in Europe

46 Timeline of the Reformation

48 Survival guide to the Reformation

50 How to create a Reformation pamphlet

52 The German Peasants' War

The Habsburgs

56 An introduction

58 Charles V

66 The Hofburg

74 Margaret of Austria

82 Rudolf II- the alchemist of Austria

Death & Decline

92 The Thirty Years' War

100 The Peace of Westphalia

104 The Battle of Vienna

106 Austria vs Prussia - A duel of eagles

110 The Battle of Valmy

118 The Imperial Recess of 1803

120 Austerlitz

128 Surviving 1806 - An interview with a Holy Roman expert