Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social ...

Naumburg Cathedral, located in the south of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, is a unique testimony to medieval ... through the Middle Rhine areas to the eastern boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire and ...

Later in life, while governing the Holy Roman Empire as regent for her grandson ... Among such women were the princess-abbesses of Quedlinburg in Saxony and the imperial abbesses in Zurich.

His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”. He immediately discarded the showy red velvet slippers and ornate vestments ...

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern-day Italy. German popes elected from the Empire included Gregory in 996 and Damasus II in 1048. England ...

This heraldic figure was carved into the wall of the Cenacle, probably during the pilgrimage of 1436, when Archduke Frederick of Habsburg — the future emperor of the Holy Roman Empire — traveled to ...

Duke of Saxony, against the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League—a military alliance of Lutheran principalities and cities within the Holy Roman Empire. The war culminated in the Battle of Mühlberg in ...

also known as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire. Beginning in the 20th century, similar titles were frequently used to describe the United States. If nothing else, empires may rise and fall ...

The second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbutte, Maria Theresa was immediately acknowledged as the rightful heir of the Holy ...

The accident of conception made him a member of the oldest and richest of all the princely families of the Holy Roman Empire of the German ... of Peter I’s newly proclaimed Russian empire. In contrast ...