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In the 16th century, German cities and territories welcomed thousands of refugees fleeing the religious persecution sparked by the Protestant Reformation. In Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious...

A 17th-century print by Matthäus Merian showing the German city of Frankfurt am Main around 1617.

Misunderstood, neglected, forgotten. The Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany is rediscovering one of the star painters of the Italian Baroque in a landmark exhibition: GUIDO RENI...

The cover of Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608 by Professor Maximilian Miguel Scholz. (Association of University Presses...

The War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814), known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation, was the penultimate conflict of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). The Sixth Coalition, which included Russia, Austria, Prussia, the...

The Hindenburg disaster occurred on 6 May 1937 when the German Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg attempted to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, but burst into flames. The airship's gas cells were...

Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace 00:00 II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando 10:37 ∙ III. Elegia. Andante non troppo 17:16 ∙ IV. Intermezzo interrotto...

As Lugdunum I (RIC 230), head of Augustus (r. 27 BCE - 14 CE), countermarked "VAR" (Varus).

The Holy Roman Empire officially lasted from 962 to 1806. It was one of Europe’s largest medieval and early modern states, but its power base was unstable and continually shifting. The Holy Roman Empire was not a unitary state...

Hildegard of Bingen (also known as Hildegarde von Bingen, l. 1098-1179) was a Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, and polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbology, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine...