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Italy auctions off Holy Roman Emperor’s castle to tackle public debt
Italy is auctioning off a vast 16th-century castle built for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ... a key thoroughfare since the Roman Empire, and of two city gates – one leading north to Rome ...
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The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it
Soon after becoming king, he conquered the bulk of mainland Europe, including the powerful Lombards (in present-day northern Italy), the ... years—the Holy Roman Empire. Many historians credit ...
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Constance: Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Sicily and Peacemaker
This was so because the Holy Roman Empire plus the Sicilian Kingdom created ... squeeze the Papal States in between them in central Italy. Pope Alexander III (r.1159-1181) in particular feared ...
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What was the Holy Roman Empire? What monetary policies tell us about premodern multilaterism
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 ...