EPISODE · Jul 5, 2015 · 2H 23M
The Helios Biblios Hour the book of the Sun pt2 CODE RED /AEIOU
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Austria est imperio optime unita: Austria is the empire best united. Austriae est imperare orbi universo: It is Austria’s destiny to rule the whole world.The Holy Roman Empire (hereinafter the HRE) was based around Austria. The full name was the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The Holy Roman Empire was known as ‘the Empire’ in Europe at the time. If anyone in Europe said the Empire everyone knew it was the HRE that was being spoken of. Likewise if someone said ‘the Emperor’ one was clearly referring to the Emperor of the HRE.In the early 16th century the HRE consisted of the modern day countries and regions of Austria, the Czech Republic, most of Germany, northern Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, western Poland, Switzerland and a slice of eastern France. Amongst the ordinary people of the HRE there was no common language. Charles V said, “I speak French to men, Italian to women, Spanish to God and German to my horse.” The language of government was Latin but this was true of every Roman Catholic and indeed Protestant country at the time. (The educated elite were fluent in Latin. Latin was still a spoken language used for diplomatic, legal and ecclesiastical purposes.) Nor was there any real capital. Until Charles V the Emperors of the Habsburg dynasty had spent most of their time in Vienna.The HRE was very divided, linguistically, ethnically and geographically. The HRE was divided into scores of different states. This smorgasbord of states was ruled by a variety of different rulers with all sorts of different titles. kings, princes, archbishops Roman.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/o-ye-drybones-archive--6500709/support.
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Austria est imperio optime unita: Austria is the empire best united. Austriae est imperare orbi universo: It is Austria’s destiny to rule the whole world.The Holy Roman Empire (hereinafter the HRE) was based around Austria. The full name was the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The Holy Roman Empire was known as ‘the Empire’ in Europe at the time. If anyone in Europe said the Empire everyone knew it was the HRE that was being spoken of. Likewise if someone said ‘the Emperor’ one was clearly referring to the Emperor of the HRE.In the early 16th century the HRE consisted of the modern day countries and regions of Austria, the Czech Republic, most of Germany, northern Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, western Poland, Switzerland and a slice of eastern France. Amongst the ordinary people of the HRE there was no common language. Charles V said, “I speak French to men, Italian to women, Spanish to God and German to my horse.” The language of government was Latin but this was true of every Roman Catholic and indeed Protestant country at the time. (The educated elite were fluent in Latin. Latin was still a spoken language used for diplomatic, legal and ecclesiastical purposes.) Nor was there any real capital. Until Charles V the Emperors of the Habsburg dynasty had spent most of their time in Vienna.The HRE was very divided, linguistically, ethnically and geographically. The HRE was divided into scores of different states. This smorgasbord of states was ruled by a variety of different rulers with all sorts of different titles. kings, princes, archbishops Roman.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/o-ye-drybones-archive--6500709/support.
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