The Holy Roman Empire was vast, powerful in name but fractured in reality. This video explores how conflicting loyalties, decentralized rule, and endless internal rivalries made it one of the most ...

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The Holy Roman Empire, which also lasted about 1,000 years, was in effect ended by a decree from Napoleon in the early 19th century. ( These are the longest-lived empires in history .) Click here ...

Of Princes and Poets: Lohenstein’s Verse Epistles on the Divorce of the Elector Palatine Carl Ludwig Michael M. Metzger Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720 , 1991 , pp. 159-176 (18 ...

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 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, but ...

On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish king Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Rome after being assaulted ...

Emperors and Princes: 7. The Eagle of the Empire (pp. 109-125) George C. Schoolfield. 8. Der Zensor als Literaturkritiker: Die Approbationsvermerke im frühneuzeitlichen Buch als literarhistorische ...

At the end of World War II, it was discovered that the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire had vanished from their secret vault in Nuremberg. The mystery of who stole the jewels was left ...