Charlemagne, one of medieval Europe’s most powerful rulers, allowed his sons to marry freely—yet refused to let any of his ...

Charlemagne is known as “the father of Europe,” and little wonder. The Frankish king and conqueror was crowned emperor by the pope on Christmas Day in 800, and thus the Holy Roman Empire came into ...

The fall of Rome led to chaos in Western Europe. Enter Carolus Magnus, more commonly known as Charlemagne, who sought to make sweeping cultural, economic, and religious changes—at any cost. This bust ...

An air of mystery surrounds the off-white dome, framed by slender cylindrical towers, rising from the alluvial soil that sweeps from the Chienti valley to the Adriatic. Guidebooks describe the church ...