Why Guys Should Think About the Holy Roman Empire
So there’s a lot of guys thinking about the Roman Empire lately, but that’s nothing new. Though the western half of their empire fell more than 1500 years ago, the Romans have never really gone away, leaving behind traces -- material and immaterial -- of their achievements in so many different realms of human endeavor: from civil engineering and hydraulics to political and legal reforms to linguistic and literary developments, and so much else.
More than any other empire-builders in the Western world, the Romans have been studied, admired, idealized, and emulated by succeeding empires right on through the twentieth century, for better and for worse. In this episode, I make the case that there is another empire worthy of our attention, one that went further than almost any other civilization in associating itself with ancient Rome, right down to its name. It will encompass the fall of ancient Rome, the origins of the Franks, and the rise of the Merovingian dynasty.
Theme track used: The Age of Empire (Zero Project), re-composed by Stavros Stavrou
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