The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

The Habsburgs, a notable European royal family, ruled Spain from 1506 to 1700 and held the Holy Roman Empire from 1452 until 1806. Famous for their practice of inbreeding, they often married within ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular classical compositions played at the holidays. Filled with biblical passages and ...

Europe's mighty Danube River flows through major cities like Vienna and Budapest, but consider strolling along its banks in ...

Seven Rivers is story of the Nile, Danube, Niger, Mississippi, Ganges, Yangtze and the Thames. It is a story of imperial frontiers, alluvial gold, kidnappings, slavery, anticolonialism and creation ...

It is this freewheeling agency, adds Dr McCall, that makes games—especially those that lean towards simulation rather than ...

New scientific testing reveals that the marble slab covering Emperor Otto I’s tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral did not come from Greece.

COMMENTARY: The 16th-century ecumenical council shows us how the Church can come together and bring about authentic reform.

Events from this week in Christian history include the death of Martin Rinkart, Menno Simons having a bounty placed on his head, and the baptism of a pioneering African bishop ...

The most obvious evidence Christian nationalism exists is there are quite a few Christians who embrace the term.

A pristine example of Dutch flower painting by 17th-century artist Maria Van Oosterwyck sold for more than double estimate at Christie's Paris ...