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This 4 page paper touches on some of the developments in five monarchies of the time: the Holy Roman Empire, England, France, Hungary and Russia. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Holy Roman Empire, England, France, Hungary and Russia. The Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire was unique, and therefore tends to be difficult to understand; it wasnt a
country and despite the fact that most of its rulers and subjects were German, it comprised many ethnicities (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). At its height, it contained "most of
the territory of todays Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Czech Republic and Slovenia, as well as eastern France, northern Italy and western Poland: (Holy Roman Empire, 2005).
It is best described as "a cross between a state and a religious confederation" and was actually an attempt to resurrect the ancient Roman Empire (Holy Roman Empire, 2005).
Its also referred to as the "Reich" (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). If there was one overriding problem in the Reich, it was the fact that it was
"stamped by a most peculiar coexistence of the Empire with the struggle of the dukes of the local territories to take power away from it" (Holy Roman Empire, 2005).
The Emperor lost control over the lands he actually owned, with the result that he was "forced to grant more and more powers to the individual dukes in their respective
territories" a process that wasnt stopped until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). As to the various emperors and kings: many historians like to date the
beginning of the Holy Roman Empire to the coronation of Charlemagne, but as he used the title "King of the Franks," that seems inappropriate (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). Instead,
the establishment of the Empire is considered to be "a process that started with the split of the Frankish realm in the Treaty of Verdun in 843, continuing the Carolingian
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