The towering Greek philosopher and poet Homer described olive oil as “liquid gold” and the Greek tragedian extraordinaire Sophocles called olives “our sweet silvered wet nurse”. Olive oil is the oil ...

THE recent outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is not just another geopolitical conflict — it is a painful eruption of an ancient struggle that has reverberated through the centuries. While ...

For the Holy Roman Empire, the eighteenth century was a time of existential concerns. In his Explanation of Germans’ Right to Trade with India (1752), the jurist Johann Julius Surland sought to ...

He told the world he wished to be known as Pope Francis. His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”.

But crucially, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, was still strongly Catholic. And also crucially, Catherine of Aragon was Charles the V’s aunt, so Princess/Lady Mary was his cousin.

The expansion of the Roman Empire and its continuous military conflicts led to the incorporation of foreign warriors into its ranks. During the war against the Marcomanni on the Danube, around AD 180, ...

A ruthless ruler and opponent, devoted wife and mother to sixteen children, Maria Theresa’s forty year rule over her European territories is nothing if not miraculous. The second and eldest surviving ...

Overall, the grand campaign of Medieval 2 has 17 playable factions, which include the Holy Roman Empire, The Eastern Roman Empire, and The Seljuk Turks, among many other powerful historical ...

That long-standing ambition to revive the glory of the Roman Empire, first by the Carolingians and later through the Holy Roman Empire, came to an end in 1806. The last holder, Francis II, dissolved ...

The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break the top 20. Clustered around the Mediterranean, it stretched from Portugal in ...