The Rise and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire is the only complete history of the Holy Roman Empure currently in print. The vain attempt of the Holy Roman Empire to restore the legacy of ancient Rome is recounted in full. Unlike other histories, Dr. Criswell covers both emperors and popes, who were by charter co-rulers of the empire, and discusses the whole empire as it extended at various times far beoynd Germany and Italy to Spain, England, France, and even to Constantiniople, Jerusalem, and the Americas. Preferring facts to interpretation, Dr. Criswell has presented this history as a chronoligcal narrative, discussing each and every emperor and pope, as well as the dominant kings of Europe, from the time of Charlemagne to the empire's fall under Napoleon. The result is a history that combines Church history with secular history and is the first comprehensive, yet conscise, history of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Don't buy this book,
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This review is from: The Rise and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire: From Charlemagne to Napoleon (Paperback)
First off, the reviewers who praise this must not be used to reading nonfiction. This book presents an incredibly biased interpretation of history, lacks footnotes, contains numerous factual errors, and, perhaps worst of all, has not been edited. The spelling and grammatical errors contained within are the type that would be shocking in even a rough draft, much less a polished finished product.
Do not buy this to learn anything about the Medieval or early Modern Empire. Although no one-volume work exists to cover the entire history of the Holy Roman Empire, vastly superior works on individual periods and emperors can be easily found. If the book's price weren't so low, I'd return it.
35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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Beware of this book,
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This review is from: The Rise and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire: From Charlemagne to Napoleon (Paperback)
This is not a history book. It's just a prattling of facts, filled with historical errors (like calling the Magyars a Slavic people), hundreds of editing errors (notice how Charles the Bald dies in 881 to miraculoulsy reappear to die again in 888), biased information (like the laughable chapter on the Spanish conquest of the Americas), cheap Protestant propaganda and void pseudo-moral teachings.
Actually, it's my fault. I should've returned this book when I saw in the back cover that the author, David Criswell had a M.Div. from Criswell College . . . yes, Criswell; and that he had written books science, reliion, history, anthropology and medical ethics! If you want facts and a couple of anecdotes or scandalous details, this is a book for you. For the rest of us, until a true historian writes a comprehensive book on this subject (probably a two- or three-volume book), I recommend the good books on specific subjects, such as Norwich's three-volume history of Byzantium, Wedgwood's Thirty Years War, Kann's excellent account of the Habsburg Empire or Riley-Smith's one-volume book on the Crusades, just a name a few.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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The worst ever,
This review is from: The Rise and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire: From Charlemagne to Napoleon (Paperback)
I am a history fan, when I saw this book with the title of HOLY ROMAN EMPİRE I think that this book is gorgeous. But when I start to read this book I understand that the author is a fundamentalist. For history lovers and the ones who want to learn history with a right perspective DONT READ THİS BOOK.Even 1 Dolar is much for this
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