Restauratio Imperii
The Renovatio imperii (or sometimes or in French "Renaissance (or restoration) of the Empire", is the project of restoring the Roman Empire made several times in the Middle Ages.
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Byzantine Empire
The reign of Justinian is marked by a willingness to imperil restauratio, aiming to recapture the old Western Roman Empire disintegrated by the barbarian invasions to regain imperial unity before Diocletian.
Carolingians
Escaping from the Byzantines, the imperial crown devolves finally Charlemagne in 800 , thanks to its coronation by Leo III in Rome. The idea is to imperil renovatio this time supplemented by that of translatio imperii also essential in medieval thought, theorizes that the shift in the center of political gravity in the world from east to west, and particularly of Rome to the medieval capital (as Aix-la-Chapelle and Paris ).
After the partition of Verdun ( 843 ) the idea of Renovatio imperii confuses the restoration of the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire, conceived as models two moments of accomplishment and prosperity policy.
Ottonian
The following centuries are constantly reborn projects Renovatio imperii. The most successful is that of the Ottonian , with the coronation of Otto I in 962 , and his successors Otto II (which takes the title of Imperator Romanorum) and Otto III. The Ottonian melt and the Holy Roman Empire.
Influence of the sustainable concept
Beyond the term of renovatio (or restauratio) imperil the idea of restoration of an empire dominating the west part of some future ambitions, like those of Charles V , of Bonaparte , the German Reich , or even the Third Reich in the twentieth century.
Bibliography
- Robert Folz, The Concept of Empire in the West, Paris, 1953
- Percy Ernst Schramm, Kaiser, Rom und Renovatio, Darmstadt 1962 (Nachdruck 1929).
- Reinhart Staats, Theologie der Reichskrone: Otto. "Renovatio imperii im Spiegel e. Badge, Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, Bd 13, Hiersemann, 1976
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