Memleben monastery. In the right part of the picture, the monastery garden, under whose border the predecessor building of the monumental church continues.Photo by Thomas Jäger / State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt
Posted on 10/10/2023 7:24:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Memleben monastery. In the right part of the picture, the monastery garden, under whose border the predecessor building of the monumental church continues.Photo by Thomas Jäger / State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt
Didn’t he invent the Otto-man? They named an entire empire after him!
This is why I want to rule as emperor from an undisclosed location.
Otto...we miss thee.
“A mysterious foundation in the cloister of the monumental monastery church can possibly be linked to the mention of a subsequent burial of Otto the Great’s intestines...”
They could have at least buried the rest of him too.
I thought the Roman Empire had basically fallen by 600 AD(CE)? Someone help me out here?
His great great great great great (etc) grandson did well for himself.
There were several Roman Empires as I recall. The Holy Roman Empire started after the other ones fizzled out.
“A mysterious foundation in the cloister of the monumental monastery church...”
There may be a second, even more mysterious Foundation at the opposite end of the galaxy.
:)
The Holy Roman Empire was founded after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. Roughly, it comprised what is now Germany and France. The Eastern Roman Empire, a.k.a. Byzantium, didn’t fall until 1453.
I had a history teacher who liked to say that the Holy Roman Empire, was neither ‘holy’, ‘Roman’, nor an ‘empire’
For most of its history, it was a loose configuration of Germanic states, that spent more time on internal power struggles than actual governing.
Poor Charlemagne, he never could catch a break.
>>According to Thietmar von Merseburg’s chronicle from the beginning of the 11th century, the ruler’s entrails were buried the night after his death in Memleben’s St. Mary’s Church (a predecessor of Otto II’s monumental church), and his embalmed body was transported to Magdeburg. An interpretation of the newly discovered building in the monumental church cloister as a sanctuary for the temporary storage and veneration of the ‘relic’ with the entrails of Otto the Great is within the realm of possibility.
Removal of the intestines presumably made the body less smelly to transport.
That’s something that I’ve always thought was pretty neat. That the Roman Empire finally fell just a few decades before the discovery of America.
The Roman Empire was divided by Diocletian, who put an end to the Crisis of the 3rd Century.
The eastern R.E. (in modern times usually called the Byzantine Empire) didn’t finally fall until the Turks took Constantinople in 1453 — a mere 39 years before Columbus set sail into everlasting fame.
Charlemagne had ruled as Emperor of the Romans. The ruins of the Roman Empire are still impressive today, imagine how they must have looked (and how many more of them were around) back then.
The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of the numerous Germanic states, and more or less rooted in the division of Gaul after Charlemagne died (the German side went to Louis the German).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=holy+roman+empire
https://www.germany.travel/en/cities-culture/trier.html
fun sidebars:
https://www.youtube.com/@medievalmadnesss/videos
;^)
This is the HOLY Roman Empire.
As the wags say, it was not holy, not Roman, and not an empire.
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