This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...

This interactive map of the Roman Empire is amazing. Newsletter sign up Newsletter (Image credit: Johan Åhlfeldt, Pelagios) By Ryan Cooper. last updated 8 January 2015 ...

VIA ROMANA A new interactive map of the Roman Empire allows users to calculate costs in time and money for hundreds of river, road and sea routes. W. Scheidel and E. Meeks.

Charlemagne’s successors built what came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. Between 962 and 1806, it would control most of modern-day Germany and portions of modern-day France, Italy, and ...

Old Maps Online lets you find your way around 17th century Holy Roman Empire It's the single largest online collection of historical maps. Curt Hopkins – Mar 7, 2012 6:21 pm | 24 ...

At the end of World War II, it was discovered that the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire had vanished from their secret vault in Nuremberg. The mystery of who stole the jewels was left ...

The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History. By Peter Wilson. Allen Lane; 941 pages; £35. Belknap; $39.95. ON A map, the Holy Roman Empire resembles something closer to a ...

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 ...

FOLLOWING CAESAR: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire. By John Keahey. St. Martin’s Press. 256 pages. $30.

Scroll down further - and see some of the detailed anatomical artwork that caused such a stir. Andreas Vesalius - born in Flanders in 1514 - was an ambitious young man, not shy of self-publicity.

This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...