Second, some of the symbols were decoys that meant absolutely ... the religious rulings imposed on them by the Catholic Holy Roman Empire. At the time the letter was written, Charles V had already ...

Charles V began inheriting various family titles at a young age, and his dominion eventually encompassed the Holy Roman Empire—which ... 120 encrypted symbols didn't employ a simple symbol ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...