HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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King of England
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Holy Roman Emperor
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Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor. In this role, he encouraged the Carolingian Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual revival in Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -The dramatic zenith of his partnership with the church occurred on December 25, 800, in the old Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome, when Pope Leo III interrupted Christmas mass to place a crown on Charles’s head and anointed him emperor – the first to bear the title west of Constantinople in more than three centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Suddenly, as Charlemagne rose from prayer, Leo placed a crown on his head and, while the assembled Romans acclaimed him as “Augustus and emperor, ‘’ the Pope abased himself before Charlemagne, “adoring” him “after the manner of the emperors of old.”
Detailed explanation-4: -This grand, multifigured composition celebrates one of the great events of German history, when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome in the year 800.
Detailed explanation-5: -For Charlemagne, the coronation was an attempt to sanctify the power he had already achieved, and an opportunity to become equal in power and prominence with the emperor in the East.