Who can endure this misfortune that weighs upon a nation that was once so glorious? May God improve things, if it is still ...

The French writer and historian Voltaire famously quipped that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor even an empire. Names aside, a new book shows that this wide-ranging confederation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current ...

This video is a preview for the upcoming project "The Holy Roman Empire: Every Year," expected to be completed around March-May 2024. Timeline: 0:00 Late Frankish Empire 1:38 Holy Roman Empire / ...

Peter H. Wilson, Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), 941 pp., $39.95. IT SAYS something about the power of historical memory that, 132 ...

The world of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is a dangerous one of politics, passions, and precarious alliances. And to fully appreciate the nuanced power plays that Thomas Cromwell must navigate ...

The Holy Roman Empire was a mighty medieval empire in the desired tradition of the ancient roman empire. The ruler of the empire was the king of the Romans, elected by the prince electors who was ...