A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later...
PublishedNew Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2003
Charlemagne, ruler of the Frankish kingdom from 768 to his death in 814, founded the first empire in western Europe after the fall of Rome. His court...
Charles V (1500-1558), King of Spain (1516-1556) and Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556) is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the great European...