Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current territory was a shambolic mess — part of the Holy Roman Empire ...

Old Maps Online lets you find your way around 17th century Holy Roman Empire It's the single largest online collection of historical maps. Curt Hopkins – Mar 7, 2012 6:21 pm ...

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 ...

Apr 14th 2016 | 3 min read. The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years ... But Peter Wilson of Oxford University argues that we have been conditioned to see the empire this way. From the 19th century ...

For anyone trying to make sense of the situation on the continent, with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light.

Indeed, in the words of one historian, the Holy Roman Empire had “no history at all” after the mid-17th century, though “it continued for a while longer to lead a miserable, meaningless ...

SUMMITS were more fun in those days. When Ferdinand III, the Habsburg monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, arrived in Regensburg, the Brussels of its time, in late 1652, he brought 60 musicians and ...