The man was Emperor Charles V. Now aged 55 ... Charles rearranged Low Country institutions as he pried the Habsburg Netherlands out of the Holy Roman Empire – the very same organisation he formally ...

The scholars say military service became truly acceptable in the Church only after the Emperor ... He is St. Maximilian, a Christian who lived in Thavaste, an outpost of the Roman Empire in ...

As the Roman Empire fell into serious decline in the 5th century, there were several attempts to restore Roman power amid the ...

“Catholicism outlived the Roman Empire. We’ll outlive the American Empire too.” So a Jesuit priest once told me at a pub in New York during my time as an O’Hare fellow at America.

When the How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire? meme went viral in 2023, it may have felt like a passing joke — until it became clear that people really do think about it all the time.

Some people come to the Christian faith gradually, like the man who was blind from birth who was healed by Jesus. Others ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because they were born in the right family. What’s more, the empire started through ...