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: Random House, 2016), 688 pp., $35.00. ... It transformed Germany by establishing dualism within the Holy Roman Empire, ...

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.

Frederick the Great: King of Prussia. By Tim Blanning. Allen Lane; 672 pages; £30. ... transforming Prussia from a mere “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire” into a great power.

An Arabic inscription referring to the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II has finally been translated, referring to Jesus the Messiah, archaeologists say.

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 ...