To heighten the excitement not even crown jewels were omitted. One of Wilhelm II’s costliest whimsies as Kaiser and All Highest was to have the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire exactly ...

Though Charlemagne gained no substantial territory, the coronation created a confederation that would last for a thousand years—the Holy Roman Empire. Many historians credit Charlemagne with ...

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 ...

“So the Holy Roman Empire had been around for a long time—we’re talking practically back to the Roman Empire. Was it the succession to the Roman Empire? That’s a little bit sketchy.

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 ...