Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on MASTERPIECE.

As a token of capitulation, the dictator demanded the title “Benefactor of the Church,” a distinction last conferred on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1167. Trujillo put on a big ...

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information.

Almost overnight, Primrose Dunlop’s name appeared in newspapers around the world - not only had her supposedly royal husband-to-be abandoned their wedding, but he’d eloped with his best man ...

Christians, of course, really were persecuted by the Roman Empire beginning in the 1st century ... new standard for authoritarian moral outrage. Holy caped crusader! What would Deacon Chapin ...

England has had kings, queens, and archbishops, but only once has an Englishman become a Pope. Pope Adrian IV remains the only Englishman to have ever held the papal throne, but despite his rise ...

The major world religions emerged between approximately 600 BCE and 611 CE, with Judaism being the first, followed by Christianity and concluding with Islam, ...