All About History: Holy Roman Empire - December 2020 (gnv64)

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