Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Francis Asbury, Sylvester II becoming pope, and ...

Austria, after the Holy Roman Empire ended in 1806, wanted to build a powerful central monarchy to consolidate its power.

A king of Spain and archduke of Austria, Charles V ruled over the Holy Roman Empire for nearly 40 years, dealing with such challenges as uprisings tied to the Reformation, threats from the Ottoman ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies ... It also held Jewish holy scriptures and documents. Outside was the temple square – this was a ...

It is one of the most important Romanesque monuments from the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The cathedral was the burial place of the German emperors for almost 300 years. Description is available ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...