More commonly known as Charlemagne, the heir to the Carolingian dynasty, he went on to become one of Europe’s greatest leaders ... a thousand years—the Holy Roman Empire.

The researchers estimate that it took seven weeks to travel from Constantinople (at the eastern end of the empire) to London (in the far west). The Roman Empire reached its greatest size under the ...

The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ medieval history series, we explore how imperial cities in the Holy Roman Empire rose to prominence through war and alliance-building. Focusing on the 1377 ...

Three pandemics in the Roman Empire coincided with abnormally cold ... The Roman state flourished and reached its greatest extent during the three centuries of relatively warm and wet weather ...

Likewise its crypt, consecrated in 1041, is the biggest hall of the Romanesque era. No less than eight medieval emperors and kings of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from Konrad II to ...

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 ...