The richest man to ever live was so wealthy that the rulers of one of the largest empires in history came to him for help.

Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, ...

The idea that the Vatican has God on speed-dial was one of the first things tossed off the balcony in St Peter’s Square by ...

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. “When Henry VIII declared ...

or the man in your life, think about the Roman Empire?" By doing so, she tapped into a truism hidden in plain sight; which is that, apparently, straight men think about the Roman Empire a lot.