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

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 ...

Beginner players might struggle to decide their starting ruler in Crusader Kings 3, but this guide will help players make the ...

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Mark Millar's Vatican City comic for Netflix and Dark Horse hits April 2025, set in a vampire-overrun world. Millar teams ...

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 ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was German, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans? (Image: Imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire) Credit:Flickr / mitko_denev ...

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 ...

Completely different from the Roman Empire, the lasting Holy Roman Empire was Germanic despite the implication of the name. Credits: Bede735c, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Completely different ...

Jubilees, a Catholic Church tradition dating to 1300, are considered a time for reconciliation and renewal. But for many ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north ...

Discovered in central Germany, the 1,800-year-old silver artifact held a tiny scroll, which researchers have now deciphered ...