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 ...

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, ...

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Volumes 1 and 2 by Joachim Whaley: review. Joachim Whaley's ground-breaking history of the Holy Roman Empire escapes the shadow cast by the Nazis, finds Peter ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

When Boris Johnson declared that attempts at European unity had failed, he should have looked at the father of modern Europe, the German king Charlemagne, whose Holy Roman Empire lasted for over ...

GERMANY: Holy Roman Adolf. 8 minute ... One of Wilhelm II’s costliest whimsies as Kaiser and All Highest was to have the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire exactly duplicated in authentic jewels ...

The Holy Roman Empire was the first of three Reichs in German history. The second was the Hohenzollerns’ formidable, Prussian-dominated empire forged by Bismarck out of victory in the Franco ...

The Holy Roman Empire can help inspire a different European Union We should look to the example of Charlemagne, writes Peter Wilson A portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel burns in Athens in ...

Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 (D Giles Limited) by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Joshua O’Driscoll joins the authors’ meticulous historical analysis with ...