these posts are dedication incarnate
In another life I was digging ditches for the Legions o7
Honestly one of my favourite things in the fediverse.
Explanation: Most would regard the Principate period of the Empire to be the height of Rome’s power and prestige (here simply labeled as ‘Roman Empire’), with the Eastern and Western Empires of the Dominate and Byzantine periods being in various states of decay.
The ‘Holy Roman Empire’, despite its name, was a MUCH later Medieval confederation of German states which often quarreled with the remnant state of the Byzantine Empire over who was the ‘true’ Rome. Despite my disgust for the Byzies, the Holy Roman Empire ain’t even in the same ballpark as the Empire of old.
A friend likes to complain that the Holy Roman Empire Of The Germanic Peoples wasn’t holy, wasn’t Roman, wasn’t an empire, and wasn’t really German, he admits there might have been some people involved
The Holy Roman Empire has as accurate a name as Precision Scheduled Railroading. It was not Holy, not Roman, and barely an empire.
