The Idea of Empire
Alain de Benoist
Europe was the place where two great models of polity, political unity, were elaborated, developed and clashed: nation, preceded by monarchy, empire. The last emperor Latin West, Romulus Augustus, deposed in 475. Only Eastern empire remained. But after Western dismantled, a new unitary consciousness seems to have arisen. In 795, Pope Leon III started date his encyclicals based on reign Charles, king Franks patrician Romans, rather than Constantinople. Five years later Rome, Christmas Day year 800, placed imperial crown Charlemagne’s head.
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