{"id":61473,"date":"2021-02-08T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61473"},"modified":"2021-02-07T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:22:11","slug":"how-did-the-holy-roman-empire-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/how-did-the-holy-roman-empire-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How did the Holy Roman Empire Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8Fd7RSNK0s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>History Matters<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 25 Aug 2019<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tenminhistory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tenminhistory<\/a><br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/user?u=4973164\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/user?u=4973164<\/a><br \/>\nMerch: teespring.com\/stores\/history-matters-&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon:<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Sanders<br \/>\nChris Fatta<br \/>\nDaniel Lambert<br \/>\nRichard Wolfe<br \/>\nJoshua<br \/>\nTom Loghrin<br \/>\nWarren Rudkin<br \/>\nAndrew Niedbala<br \/>\nMitchell Wildoer<br \/>\nBlaine Tillack<br \/>\nBernardo Santos<br \/>\nMatthew<br \/>\nJohn Garcia<br \/>\nRichard Hartzell<br \/>\nWill Davis-Coleman<br \/>\nDanny Anstess<br \/>\nHenry Rabung<br \/>\nAugust Block<br \/>\nPerry Gagne<br \/>\nShaun Pullin<br \/>\nJoooooshhhhh<br \/>\nVesko Dinev<br \/>\nPaulToon<br \/>\nKelly Moneymaker<br \/>\nFuzzytheFair<br \/>\nArmani_Banani<br \/>\nJeffrey Schneider<br \/>\nByzans_Scotorius<br \/>\nSeth Reeves<br \/>\nHaydn Noble<br \/>\nJosh Cornelius<br \/>\nGideon Rashkes<br \/>\nSpencer Smith<br \/>\nCornel Borin\u0103<br \/>\nRoberto<br \/>\nAndrew Keeling<br \/>\nRichard Manklow<br \/>\nChance Cansler<br \/>\nJo\u00e3o Santos<br \/>\nGabriel Lunde<br \/>\nPierre Le Mouel<br \/>\nanon<\/p>\n<p>How did the Holy Roman Empire work? It was an antiquated mess but it did have a system of government that did work. Sort of. If everyone felt like it.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><em>Prussia&#8217;s Relations with the Holy Roman Empire, 1740-1786<\/em> by Peter H. Wilson.<\/p>\n<p><em>Benjamin Franklin, Student of the Holy Roman Empire: His Summer Journey to Germany in 1766 and His Interest in the Empire&#8217;s Federal Constitution<\/em> by J\u00fcrgen Overhoff.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire after 1648: Samuel Pufendorf&#8217;s Assessment in His Monzambano<\/em> by Peter Schr\u00f6der.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bolstering the Prestige of the Habsburgs: The End of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806<\/em> by Peter H. Wilson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-08-How-did-the-Holy-Roman-Empire-Work-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-08-How-did-the-Holy-Roman-Empire-Work--480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-63900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-08-How-did-the-Holy-Roman-Empire-Work--480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-08-How-did-the-Holy-Roman-Empire-Work--150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-08-How-did-the-Holy-Roman-Empire-Work--768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-08-How-did-the-Holy-Roman-Empire-Work-.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Matters Published 25 Aug 2019 Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tenminhistory Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/user?u=4973164 Merch: teespring.com\/stores\/history-matters-&#8230; Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon: Kevin Sanders Chris Fatta Daniel Lambert Richard Wolfe Joshua Tom Loghrin Warren Rudkin Andrew Niedbala Mitchell Wildoer Blaine Tillack Bernardo Santos Matthew John Garcia Richard Hartzell Will Davis-Coleman Danny Anstess Henry Rabung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1118,84,7],"tags":[418,1272,1208,396,1104],"class_list":["post-61473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-government","category-history","tag-austria","tag-feudalism","tag-holyromanempire","tag-monarchy","tag-prussia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fZv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63901,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473\/revisions\/63901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}