as Emperor Ferdinand II’s tough new military chief, General Albrecht von Wallenstein, won victories against foes great and small, and expanded the rule of the Holy Roman Empire into Protestant ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art titled its latest exhibition, which showcases armor commissioned by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian ... His sons, Philip I and Philibert II, played with tiny toy ...

Military upkeep in the Roman Empire wasn’t a one-size-fits-all, in other words. They adapted where necessary. In this case, they had to reuse their equipment. Other examples of mail armor have ...

Since then, the fragments — which once made up a piece of armor — have remained in the ... and one of only three known from the whole Roman Empire.” The bronze arm guard may have been ...