Prussia played a crucial role in the history of Europe, shaping its political, military, and cultural landscape for centuries ...

This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early 1700s emerged from the shadow of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire ... s role as a great European power. Frederick II, later ...

Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (New York ... but Prussia rather than Brandenburg since its position outside the Holy Roman Empire made it unquestionably a sovereign possession.

Contemporary historians have tended to lose interest in the Holy Roman Empire after the death in 1250 of Frederick II, the powerful and charismatic emperor who challenged the authority of the Pope.

A rare Arabic inscription from the Crusades has been deciphered, with scientists finding the marble slab bears the name of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick ... the Holy Roman Empire, and he ...

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 ...