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The Holy Roman Empire and Capability Brown

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Professor Peter Wilson discusses his new book The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History. Meanwhile, garden historian Sarah Rutherford pays a visit to the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire where she explores the work of the great landscape designer Capability Brown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We need to shed our sort of conventional ideas of empire, which is empire's hegemony, where there is a dominant core that controls or dominates peripheral areas.

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And I would argue that the Holy Roman Empire, first of all, it doesn't have a stable core,

0:53.1

and it's also much more of a

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kind of overarching idealised order. That was Peter Wilson discussing the Holy Roman Empire.

1:02.1

He was able to use a very simple palette of water, grass and trees, as we can see here,

1:09.5

and turn it into something that looked almost natural.

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And that was Sarah Rutherford at Blenheim Palace, talking about the work of Capability Brown.

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