They include the abdication of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the birth of Georg Spalatin, and Saint Augustine’s University opening. Saint Augustine’s University begins to hold classes – Jan ...

Here is madness indeed – but whether the Emperor’s or the nuncio’s must be a matter of opinion. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1576–1617, was certainly one of the oddest members of his extraordinary ...

In the early 20th century, the world went ‘raving mad on the subject of radium’, according to George Bernard Shaw. The newly ...

The following pages highlight anniversaries of memorable events that occurred this week in Christian history. They include the abdication of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the birth of Georg Spalatin, ...

Spalatin eventually became a servant of German elector Frederick the Wise, a nobleman who famously protected Martin Luther after he was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church. “He would continue ...

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The self-appointed French ‘emperor’ had brought to an end the 1000-year-old Holy Roman Empire; the former Emperor Francis II found himself reduced merely to Emperor Francis I of the Austro ...

This reveals how heavily influenced Newton was by European alchemists, above all the Pole Michael Sendivogius (who, the story goes, had convinced Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II of his ability to perform ...