Find the emperor’s heart. Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great certainly wasn’t, in the purest medical sense, heartless. But now he is. The search is on to find his missing heart, though it isn ...

Otto the Great was a German king whose reign is considered to be the true beginning of the Holy Roman Empire, which was a German empire that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe – and Otto ...

Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Joshua O’Driscoll, published by D Giles Limited, is available online.

A 1,000-year-old church built by Otto the Great, who greatly extended the influence of the Catholic Church in Europe as Holy Roman Emperor, has been found under a cornfield in Germany.

The Holy Roman Empire was a strange concoction, then. And it was so right from the start. The Church at the turn of the ninth century had spiritual authority, social prestige, and growing ...