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The Royal Rundown on Charlemagne’s 20 Children
Charlemagne was crowned king of the Franks in 768 and appointed the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800. He is ...
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This week in Christian history: Holy Roman Emperor retires to monastery, Georg Spalatin born, Saint Augustine’s University opens
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V resigns ... from the Low Countries to Spain in September 1556, 39 years after his first such voyage. Then he was going to claim his kingdoms […] now he was sailing ...
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In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from ... Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect ...
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Legitimization Under Constantine
We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after ... S IMPERIAL CHRISTIANITY One of the first things Constantine does, as emperor, is start persecuting other Christians.