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An historical academic group including role play. With emphasis on the Tudors who were a Welsh-English family that ruled England from 1485 to 1603. Special attention will be paid to King Henry VIII. |
The World of the Tudors
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 The Holy Roman Empire
Historical Thread
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At first sight, the Holy Roman Empire appears incoherent, with a high degree of political fragmentation and competing jurisdictions. In fact, considerable institutional consolidation took place after 1493 within what was a confederal system, with varying levels of authority which kept political control close to those affected by it. The Empire's division into ten 'Circles' improved its administration, with the Circles organising taxation, regulating disputes and supervising the common currency, the Imperial thaler. The revival of the Imperial Cameral Tribunal and the Imperial Diet and the introduction of a common criminal code provided the empire with a complex but not unworkable constitution. It was effective enough to maintain the common currency and robust enough to survive religious division and the Thirty Years War. From the election of Maximilian I (1493), the position of emperor became all but hereditary in the Hapsburg dynasty, until, undermined from outside (ie. Napoleon Bonaparte), the Empire collapsed in 1806.
