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Between 1355 and 1806 the title of Poet Laureate was bestowed on around 1500 persons in the territories of the Holy Roma
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Petrarch’s revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout E
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The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolve
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A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believe Th
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts thro
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More detailed bookmarks The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidab
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Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire is often cited to underli
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Its continuity rested on the ideal of a uni
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