How did the Holy Roman Empire (sacrum imperium) become Holy? In this innovative book, Vedran Sulovsky explores the reign of Frederick Barbarossa (1152–1190), offering a new analysis of the key ...

Who would inherit Charlemagne’s vast imperial lands? Trying to decide led to quarreling and warfare—and the emergence of ...

The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of ...

I recently spoke to guitarist Neeraj Kane about his current project, Holy Roman Empire. Kane is a veteran of a number of notable hardcore acts including The Hope Conspiracy and The Suicide File, but ...

Instead of letting the Byzantine Empire rot and fall, you can help it reclaim the entire Mediterranean. Instead of watching the Karling dynasty fall to ruin, you can reforge the Holy Roman Empire ...

Austin Glatthorn explores the extent to which the Holy Roman Empire delineated and networked a cultural entity that found expression through music for the German stage. He maps an extensive network of ...

Archaeologists in Frankfurt (Main) have uncovered a groundbreaking historical artifact: a silver amulet believed to be the ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies ... It also held Jewish holy scriptures and documents. Outside was the temple square – this was a ...

Thursday 9.30-1.30 (walk-in office hour, no booking). The political economy of the Holy Roman Empire; state formation and market integration. Professor Volckart’s monograph The Silver Empire: How ...