What role did the Holy Roman Empire play in the first colonial conquests of the early modern period? What was the role of its princes, institutions, diplomacy, sailors, and merchants? The modern ...

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. “When Henry VIII declared ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was German, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans? (Image: Imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire) Credit:Flickr / mitko_denev ...

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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 ...

The region of Saxony in Germany boasts a rich and diverse cultural history dating back to the early Middle Ages. Once a powerful duchy and later an electorate within the Holy Roman Empire, Saxony ...

Biographies of Thom Gunn should sit on the shelf alongside those of his contemporaries Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. But Michael Nott’s is the very first. @AMcMillanPoet wonders if it will usher Gunn ...

Every week for the past few months the developers at Paradox Tinto have been posting developer diaries and in-progress map screenshots from the game that everyone knows is Europa Universalis 5 ...

The double-headed eagle with coats of arms of individual states is the symbol of the Holy Roman Empire (painting from 1510). Credit: Jost de Negker Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The Romans of the ...

The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, I think), was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Likewise, the First Amendment "actual malice" test isn't actually about malice ...