However, a unique set of circumstances made the young Charles of Ghent master of a vast empire that included territory on five continents. Charles owed his destiny to his grandfather, Holy Roman ...

Half a century later, when Bonaparte dissolved the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, these arguments had ceased to serve their purpose. Despite a lack of maps, which makes it difficult to grasp the ...

Archaeologists stumbled upon complex architecture beneath the square outside the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome while making renovations for Jubilee 2025 (the Catholic Holy Year).

The East after the disintegration of the Mongol Empire ... the absolute master of the Holy Land. However, the situation lasted barely four months in 1300, because as soon as the Mongols left, the ...

During the second century B.C., the region that is now France was a no man's land of warring tribes—a vast stretch of untamed territory ... during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

Muslims as well as Christians consider her to be holy above all women ... as Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire and began spreading into Europe, Mary typically was ...

His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”. He immediately discarded the showy red velvet slippers and ornate vestments ...

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern-day Italy. German popes elected from the Empire included Gregory in 996 and Damasus II in 1048. England ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...