But just over 200 years ago, most of its current territory was a shambolic mess — part of the Holy Roman Empire, which even at the time was recognized as an anachronistic political fossil.

A woman inspects crowns of the Holy Roman Empire at a museum in Berlin. Much like that regime, the Bowl Championship Series is full of ornate pageantry — and also fails to live up to its name ...

Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Joshua O’Driscoll, published by D Giles Limited, is available online.

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

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 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 ...

We have a complete list of the modern countries that were once all or in part included in the Roman Empire. Each of the photos is of a Roman archaeological site in that country. 24/7 Wall St. Insights ...

The Holy Roman Empire was a labyrinth of hundreds of tiny princedoms, duchies, bishoprics and independent city states, each with its own jurisdictions and special patterns of allegiance. Yet ...

SUMMITS were more fun in those days. When Ferdinand III, the Habsburg monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, arrived in Regensburg, the Brussels of its time, in late 1652, he brought 60 musicians and ...

The glory that was Rome is clearly portrayed in the riveting “Rome: Power & Glory,” a six-hour miniseries debuting Sunday on The Learning Channel. Modern minds may have trouble com… ...