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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...