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| bc2545f | [Charles the Fifth], pretty much every way worked to hold up the pillars of the medieval world order: monarchic power, domination by the Catholic Church, feudal land management, divine right, mercantile colonialization, and obedience to authority along the strict metaphysical line of the great chain of being. | holy-roman-empire medieval-europe medieval-world-order | Russell Shorto |