From emperors and conspiracies to gladiatorial games and daily life—see how well you know the empire that shaped the ancient ...

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

A ground-breaking new book … Glatthorn’s study of music theatre in the late Holy Roman Empire [is] important reading for musicologists and historians alike’. To save content items to your account, ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman ... new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire.

In 2002 the Holy See approved the Third Typical Edition of the Roman Missal, a new revision of the Latin text from which all other languages must base their translations. For the past 40 years ...

The opening of the Holy Door in the Roman prison will be a “symbol of all the prisons scattered around the world,” according to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for ...