Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

America’s empire today is partly formal, though mostly informal, with various grades of informality. The name ‘America’ itself is an imperial grab. The modern American-led ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, ... whose sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, boasted a court of equal extravagance. The Holy Roman Empire ...

The Thirty Years War, a series of wars fought by various European nations for various reasons, ignited in 1618 over an attempt by the king of Bohemia (the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II) to ...

The Thirty Years War, a series of wars fought by various European nations for various reasons, ignited in 1618 over an attempt by the king of Bohemia (the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II) to ...