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Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, also called miribilia mundi, despite his short life (he died in 1002, at age 22), is a historical figure who attracts considerable scholarly attention as well as inspires numerous artistic and popular depictions.

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  • Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, also called miribilia mundi, despite his short life (he died in 1002, at age 22), is a historical figure who attracts considerable scholarly attention as well as inspires numerous artistic and popular depictions. An intellectual emperor, even deemed a genius (although in older research, it was often pointed out that this genius leaned towards grandiose but unrealistic plans), Otto greatly developed the idea of empire with both novel and conventional conceptions during his reign. His diplomatic activities coincided with and facilitated the Christianization and the spread of Latin culture in different parts of Europe. His early death though made his reign "the tale of largely unrealized potential". Controversies over the emperor, particularly his Renovation program, has remained hotly debated until this day. Lindsay Diggelmann notes that, "His brief life (980-1002) remains rather shadowy, even by the standards of medieval biography. Yet it has assumed an enormous importance in the history of German national consciousness, since many scholars have chosen to see Otto and his predecessors in the Saxon line as the founders of a German empire in the post-Carolingian period." Otto has a reputation of piety and association with contemporary saints and great intellectual figures, as well as romantic legends. The legend (now considered unlikely to be true) of the love between Otto and Stephania, the widow of Otto's relative and enemy Crescentius, as well as Otto's poisoning by her, is a particularly frequent subject of artistic depictions of the emperor. (en)
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  • Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, also called miribilia mundi, despite his short life (he died in 1002, at age 22), is a historical figure who attracts considerable scholarly attention as well as inspires numerous artistic and popular depictions. (en)
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  • Cultural depictions of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (en)
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