The French writer and historian Voltaire famously quipped that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor even an empire. Names aside, a new book shows that this wide-ranging confederation ...

In this episode, we explore the Holy Roman Empire's influence on western Europe over a thousand years. Key figures include Frederick Barbarossa, who defied the Pope, and his successors: Henry VI, Otto ...

The world of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is a dangerous one of politics, passions, and precarious alliances. And to fully appreciate the nuanced power plays that Thomas Cromwell must navigate ...

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 three ...

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The Holy Roman Empire was a mighty medieval empire in the desired tradition of the ancient roman empire. The ruler of the empire was the king of the Romans, elected by the prince electors who was ...

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 ...