Citizens struggled to survive, the arts and education all but disappeared ... that would last for a thousand years—the Holy Roman Empire. Many historians credit Charlemagne with spreading ...

This ran afoul of a deep taboo in Roman culture. After all, Rome’s founding legend ... successors built what came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. Between 962 and 1806, it would control ...

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 ...

For the ancient sages, all of this is rooted in thinking about the Roman Empire. Their thoughts turned to the empire often, and their thoughts were dark. They equated pre- and post-Christian Rome ...