This collection brings to light three accounts on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the second half of the sixteenth century. Written by two Englishmen and one Scot, these works demonstrate the ...

The Holy Roman Empire 1504, Götz von Berlichingen was the youngest son of a Swabian noble. Inheriting nothing apart from a military education and a suit of armor.

Many things added up to create the famine that swept through the Holy Roman Empire. The 1600s were naturally ... and how while people were eating their neighbors, noble families just got richer.

One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient ... and synagogues of some of his country’s poorest people. This message announced that there was a kingdom greater ...