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Holy Roman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Holy Roman Empire and Carolingian Dynasty (Empires in History) Paperback – September 16, 2019

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Holy Roman Empire, then keep reading...

Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
  • The Holy Roman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Union of Smaller Kingdoms That Started During the Early Middle Ages and Dissolved During the Napoleonic Wars
  • The Carolingian Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Carolingian Dynasty and Their Large Empire That Covered Most of Western Europe During the Reign of Charlemagne

Beginning with Charlemagne, the great and educated king who would serve as an inspiration for world leaders from Frederick II to Adolf Hitler, the Holy Roman Empire’s intricate ties with the Roman Catholic Church would provide for plenty of excitement and drama in its early years. However, as the empire staggered through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, it would eventually be forced to declare its allegiance with a new way of thinking: Protestantism.

Throughout the story of the Holy Roman Empire, a wealth of fascinating tales from interesting people proliferates. Monks and emperors will clash, poets sing the praises of kings, and the pope rides blind and bareback on a frightened donkey through the streets of Rome. The mightiest monarch in all of the world walks barefoot in the snow in repentance for his angry deeds, and two rival families stand toe-to-toe for the monarchy. Crusades are lost in war and won in diplomacy, while kings are held ransom, revolts are suppressed, and antipopes crowned. And this incredible tale spanning a full millennium is ready and waiting for you to turn the next page.

Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include:
  • The First Roman Empire
  • The Carolingians
  • A Formal Emperor
  • The Caligula of Christianity
  • Antipope
  • The Walk to Canossa
  • The Hohenstaufen Dynasty Begins
  • The Red-Bearded Warrior King
  • Captor of the Lionheart
  • Stupor Mundi
  • The Great Interregnum
  • The King of Peace
  • The Rise of the Habsburgs
  • The Reformation
  • Eight Million Dead
  • The Dissolution
  • And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include:
  • A Quick Overview
  • The World After Rome
  • Ending a Dynasty – Pepin, Charles, and Carloman
  • The Conquests of Charles
  • In the Name of Religion
  • Pope Leo III and the Founding of an Empire
  • The Carolingian Renaissance – The Empire under Charlemagne
  • The Rule of Louis the Pious
  • Familial Strife and the Decay of the Empire
  • The Division Effectively Ending the Empire
  • Echoes of the Roman Empire – How Outside Forces Picked Apart the Carolingian Empire
  • Lasting Effects and Hope of Reunification
  • And much, much more!

So if you want to learn more about the history of The Holy Roman Empire and The Carolingian Empire, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!
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  1. Part of series
    Empires in History
  2. Print length
    212 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    September 16, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.53 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1950924068
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1950924066
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Captivating History (September 16, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 212 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1950924068
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1950924066
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Renee Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019
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A well informed read on the Holy Roman Empire and the Carolingian Dynasty. Learned some new facts. Keep up the work.
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Tero
3.0 out of 5 stars Covers a lot of emperors, kings, popes and those famous antipopes
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2021
It's not really an interesting part of European history, only covered by a page or two in school books. The large empire of Charlemagne broke up, and the Eastern parts, largely Germanic, kept ties with Italy and the pope. Catholicism ruled, and this empire had its ups and downs till the reformation. Later, with Napoleon, it dissolved.

I stayed with it for about 50 pages, and there certainly are some colorful legends in there. But basically it is the same story every time. A German (or other Northern) king holds together an empire of princedoms and powerful families. He needs to spend time in Italy, sometimes crossing the hazardous Alps in winter. He stays long enough (some of them leading huge armies down there) to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Meanwhile, all hell breaks loose at home and he has to return, put things in order, and dies of old age or disease in Germany. A few rulers died in battles, crusades and such.

The other aspects of this era are barely discussed. You come to understand that the world around these kings is changing. Religion, science, trade, printing and all that develops and we emerge from the middle ages to some 1200 or 1300.

There are no maps, so you need some reference book to follow most of it, but generally speaking all of it takes place in Germany and Italy, with France, England and so on barely mentioned. One English King, Richard the Lionhearted is in there a bit.

It's a good effort, but as I said, the storytelling gets bogged down by page 50.
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Taterzma09
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Excellent Read!
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2019
Excellent! Another great history read! It very accurately depicts the movement of borders over the course of the empire. It also explained the highlights of the rulers what made them effective (or not) and went over some of the fun events that may have happened in their rule. The only thing that I wish it would have included would have been maps or possibly one interactive map or video/map that showed the borders over the course of each emperor/king's rule, so we can actually see how the borders fluctuated during the rule of even compare borders from one ruler to the next.
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D. West
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Information !!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019
Very good books on two empires. Very similar but yet also very different . The time period they covered was very significant in European & World History! We see greed & destruction with many incompetent leaders & then see changes with more competent leaders . These books add to the literature of this time period in world history!
Another fabulous job by Captivating History!
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Christina Feigner
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant books
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019
Another great read by Captivating History on these two empires. So much fascinating information on each one. I highly recommend this bundle of books.
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Marcus Welby
1.0 out of 5 stars Precisely what it purports not to be!
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2021
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The promotional marketing for this book (?series) states “A lot of history books just contain dry facts that will eventually bore the reader.” That’s precisely what this book does although you could remove the “eventually” because the boredom starts almost immediately! There are snippets about multiple kings, emperors and popes with no background whatsoever who just magically appear out of thin air and disappear again without any follow up or relation to surrounding events of the time. There is no connection made between them and large intervening time periods are totally ignored. It’s as if the unknown author or authors picked random paragraphs from Wikipedia about the characters and just inserted them wherever they wanted. Even isolated events that could be quite intriguing lose any excitement due to the poorly written prose, spelling errors and poor grammar. There are no timelines which would be extremely helpful and no index. This book contains two manuscripts, the first about the Holy Roman Empire and the second about the Carolingian Dynasty. They are obviously written by different authors as they are totally different styles. The second manuscript contains a few maps but one is so faint you cannot even read it and the others so tiny you also cannot read them even with a magnifying glass so they are totally worthless. The second manuscript reads like it’s a grade school text and it’s even more poorly written than the first manuscript. It repeats itself about every fifth page stating the same thing over and over about how things could have been different if only the siblings inheriting kingdoms could have gotten along with each other or inheritance had not excluded illegitimate children. It also contains a lot of speculation and personal opinion of the author(s) and therefore should not be considered history at all. I can see why there is no author listed because any self-respecting author would not want his name associated with this poor writing. I fell asleep many nights trying to read this and it almost became the first book in my entire life that I did not finish. The only thing captivating about this “Captivating History” book is the capture of my purchase price! This is the only book review I have ever given just one star.
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Helen Kim
2.0 out of 5 stars Stylistically poor
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2020
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This book reads like a cross between a community college class course and a made for TV movie.
Surely there must be better written source material for this topic!
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kaize george
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, I recommend it to everyone
Reviewed in Japan on March 7, 2020
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