DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Fide, Centralisation, Cuius Regio, Eius Religio
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Dealing with history two historical mistakes: anachronism, to attribute something to a period to which it does not belong to, example: to look upon the states of today as if they had existed before. For instance, the map refers to the 11th c fragmented holy roman empire as. Germany then has nothing or little to do with present germany: finalism: Considering that there had just been one path which led to the present, and thus that past is a cause of the present. But this is wrong, the past is "a foreign" country: example: people tend charlemagne was french/german, but he was neither. French nor german because those countries didn"t exist at the time: finis = goal, destiny. They just wanted to solve local problems that they faced. Charlemagne and the revival of the roman empire: charles martel (7-8th) & more significantly charlemagne (8-9th) wanted to revive.
