Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current territory was a shambolic mess — part of the Holy Roman Empire ...

The Holy Roman Empire was vast, powerful in name but fractured in reality. This video explores how conflicting loyalties, ...

Mark Molesky reviews “Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire” by Peter H. Wilson. In the Holy Roman Empire, individual rulers and states were largely left to govern as they wished ...

How does state fragmentation effect development? Can small territories with weak states enhance economic freedom in repressive political systems? By going back into history and investigating the ...

Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on MASTERPIECE.

SUMMITS were more fun in those days. When Ferdinand III, the Habsburg monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, arrived in Regensburg, the Brussels of its time, in late 1652, he brought 60 musicians and ...