A Holy Roman emperor between 1155 and 1190, Frederick Barbarossa ruled a vast domain that included northern Italy and what has become modern-day Germany. Barbarossa (1122-90) ruled for so long and ...

From its humble origins as disparate barbarian tribes, picking away at the crumbling Roman empire, Germany rose to be one of the most enduring global powers from the middle ages onward. A mainstay of ...

On Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth, by John Freed. Born in 1122, the young Frederick became Duke of Swabia (in southern Germany) in 1147 and shortly thereafter participated in the ...

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Contribution of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" to an exhibition on the Staufer emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa in the LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster The LWL Museum of Art ...

Following the full reveal of Call of Duty: WW2 back on Wednesday, a new teaser site has launched which tasks wannabe spies with cracking a virtual Enigma machine. So far, codebreakers have decoded one ...

THE GREAT INFIDEL (431 pp.)—Joseph Jay Deiss—Random House ($5.95). Frederick the Second—Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Germans, King of Sicily, scholar, scientist, quarreler with Popes, prodigious ...