The Holy Roman Empire was vast, powerful in name but fractured in reality. This video explores how conflicting loyalties, ...

The Golden Bull of 1356 is considered one of the most important constitutional documents of the Holy Roman Empire. Eva Schlotheuber has dealt extensively during her one-year fellowship at the Kolleg ...

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 ...

Christian history begins with the life and death of Jesus Christ and continues with the formation of the early Christian church, Emperor Constantine's Holy Roman Empire and the great schism into ...

But the Holy Roman Empire had no core, because it never possessed a clear centre of government or even an official capital. Instead, power was always multiple and plural. The management of daily ...

Whaley, by contrast, salutes Westphalia for creating a system that would last a further 160 years until Napoleon’s army wrecked the Holy Roman Empire once and for all in 1806.

Christian history begins with the life and death of Jesus Christ and continues with the formation of the early Christian church, Emperor Constantine's Holy Roman Empire and the great schism into ...