(1) I think it should be
Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (singular) (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation), but i donīt know if this is correct in english.
(2) Should we write ß and umlaute (ö instead of oe ...) in german words?
--Vulture
No historians believe that the Magna Germania recorded by Tacitus was a govermental confederation. No one.
Agreed. How does one ask Larry for a rollback? This is a mess.
Ok -- and let me make this PERFECTLY CLEAR. The Carolingians NEVER tried to unite the existing German tribes/peoples. They didn't care. They were Germanic rulers who kept their power by providing lands and plunder to their warriors. To do this, they had to expand their territory. Now, they may well have wanted to create a great Empire -- maybe -- but really, they were just reinforcing Carolingian clout and it had NOTHING to do with some romanticized idea of "us Germans against the world". Culturally, the Carolingians were much more interested in emulating Roman/Christian
? ideas of imperium. None of the Carolingians ever demonstrated that they thought the Carolingian kingdoms needed only one ruler. Who got to be Emperor was a fairly minor detail....stop the insanity at once!!! I will be back to clean up the Germanic tribes through the establishment of the HRE under Otto. So there!
J Hofmann Kemp
the new introduction is wonderful! We need much the same sort of thing for France (hint, hint!) --
MichaelTinkler
I agree with M. Tinkler's note . I really like the introduction . H. Jonat
Referring to post-reunification Germany as "the new country" isn't really correct -- West Germany (but not East Germany) and post-reunification Germany are legally one and the same entity, and the former West Germany is dominant within Germany. East and West Germany didn't merge -- the West absorbed the East. --
SJK
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