Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on MASTERPIECE.

One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient traditions and religious fervor ... that trade like this corrupted the holy site. According to the Gospel of St ...

Patrician families made up the ruling class, meaning they were in jobs that had a lot of influence in how Rome and the empire were ... gods and goddesses in Roman religion were Jupiter, Juno ...

This made religious and political tensions worse. Sigismund of Luxembourg, Wenceslas' ambitious younger brother, sought to expand his influence over Hungary, Bohemia, and eventually the empire itself.

It is one of the most important Romanesque monuments from the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The cathedral was the burial ... and it had a profound influence on the pattern of their ground plans and ...