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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 Bowl Championship Series climaxes Monday, with a game in New Orleans between Louisiana State and Alabama for the national bragging rights to Dixie. As there is a joke about the Holy Roman ...
Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ... By becoming a member, you help keep our journalism free, independent, and accessible to all. Thank you for reading.
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 ...
The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it. The fall of Rome led to chaos in Western Europe. Enter Carolus Magnus, more commonly known as Charlemagne, who sought to ...
The electoral college is not just a remnant of our history, but is an adaptation from history that kept the anachronism of the Holy Roman Empire in existence for centuries. The aforementioned was ...
For anyone trying to make sense of the situation on the continent, with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light.
In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...
But the Holy Roman Empire had no core, because it never possessed a clear centre of government or even an official capital. Instead, power was always multiple and plural. The management of daily ...
We don’t burn people at the stake anymore. If we did the U.S. Supreme Court would surely rule it cruel and unusual punishment. Nineteen states in the United States don’t have a death penalty ...
Four centuries after Roman soldiers hung Jesus on a cross and mocked him, the emperor of Rome was himself Christian and Christianity was the religion of the empire. Members of the Christian church ...