History of the Germans
By Dirk Hoffmann-Becking
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Subscribers: 209
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 154
Apr 1, 2024
Greg
Nov 13, 2023
A very thorough, thoughtful and considered approach. I particularly value the thoughtful and revealing reflection of underlying drivers and other contexts within which people and events are situated
Description
The podcast that does what it says on the tin: a narrative history of the German people that starts in the year 919 AD and hopes to get all the way to 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. As Gregory of Tours (539-594) said: "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad" .
The show is now entering its 8th season. So far we have covered:
The Ottonian Emperors (Ep. 1- 21)
- Henry the Fowler (Ep. 1)
- Otto I (Ep. 2-8)
- Otto II (Ep.9-11)
- Otto II (Ep. 11-14)
- Henry II (ep. 15-17)
- Germany in the Year 1000 (ep. 18-21)
The Salier and the Investiture Controversy
- Konrad II (Ep. 22- 25)
- Henry III (Ep. 26-29)
- Henry IV & Canossa (Ep. 30-39)
- Henry V and the Concordat of Worms (Ep. 40-42)
Barbarossa and the early Hohenstaufen
- Lothar III (Ep. 43-46)
- Konrad III (Ep. 47-49)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Ep. 50-69)
Frederick II and the later Hohenstaufen
-Henry VI (Ep. 70-72)
- Philipp of Swabia (Ep. 73-74)
- Otto IV (Ep. 74-75)
- Frederick II (Ep. 75-90)
- Epilogue (ep. 91-94)
Eastern Expansion (ep. 95-108)
The Hanseatic League (Ep. 109-127)
The Teutonic Knights (Ep. 128-137)
The Interregnum and the early Habsburgs (Ep. 138 ff
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Not Leaving Port(o)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Ep. 145 How to make Friends and Influence People – The Luxemburgs become Kings of Bohemia
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Ep. 144 - The Rise of the House of Luxembourg - The election of Emperor Henry VII
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Ep. 143 – The Murder of a King - Albrecht I von Habsburg.
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Ep. 142 Adolf von Nassau - A Shadow of a King
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Ep. 141 Rudolf von Habsburg Semper Augustus - Allezeit Mehrer des Reiches
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Ep. 140 – Rudolf von Habsburg and the Golden King Ottokar II of Bohemia
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Ep. 139 – The End of the Interregnum - The Election of Rudolf von Habsburg in 1273
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Catch-up Episode - The Empire from 919 to 1250
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Ep. 137 – The Conversion - Albrecht, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order becomes a protestant duke
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Ep. 136 – 13 Years of War - The Prussian League shifts allegiance
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Ep. 135 - After Tannenberg - The rule of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia weakened
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Ep. 134 – Tannenberg / Grunwald / Žalgiris - A battle of many names
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Ep. 133 – The Order of the Order - The organisational structure of the Teutonic Knights
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Ep. 132 – The Battle on the Ice - Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein and what really happened
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Ep. 131 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part II) - The second, third and n-th Prussian uprising
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 130 – The Conquest of Prussia (Part I) - from Konrad of Masovia's offer to the first Prussian revolts
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Ep. 129 - Hermann von Salza - Diplomat and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 128 - A Chivalric Order - The beginnings of the Teutonic Knights
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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An Interview with Carsten Jahnke
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 127: The Art and Culture of the Hanse
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 126 - A Brief History of Bremen
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 125 – The Rise of Hamburg in the 16th century and beyond
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 124 – Decline and Fall (Part 2) - Jürgen Wullenwever's and Lübeck's last stand
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 123 – Decline and Fall (Part 1) - Emperors, kings and princes are closing in on Hanse cities
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 122 – Calamitous Victories open the Baltic to English merchants
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Ep. 121 – A Constitutional Crisis - The lower classes in the Hanse cities are rising up
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 120 - Money, Money, Money...how it worked in the Hanseatic League
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Ep. 119 – What is the Hansa? - A crocodile whose main body is concealed below the water?
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 118 – Pirates - Did Klaus Störtebecker even exist, and if so, did he matter?
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Ep. 117 – Embargoes or how the Hanse forced Norway, Novgorod and even Bruges to grant privileges
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 116 – The War with Denmark Part 2 - The Peace of Stralsund
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 115 – The War with Denmark Part I - Waldemar Atterdag's attack on Gotland
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Featuring The Scandinavian History Podcast
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Ep. 114 - The London Steelyard.......and the Hanse trade in Wine
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 113 – Bergen and Bruges - The Kontors of the Hanseatic League
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 112 - Grain and Beer - The Hanse's Trade in Beer and Cereals
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 111: Hewing and Herring - The Copper Mines of Falun and the Fisheries of Skane
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 110 - Livonian Cities - Riga, Reval/Tallinn, Dorpat/Taru, Narva
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Ep. 109 – The Gotlandfahrer - the Beginnings of the Hanseatic League
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 108 – From Saxony to Saxonies - The fragmentation of the great stem duchy of Henry the Lion
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Ep. 107 - The House of Wettin
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Ep. 106 – How to make a Mark in Brandenburg - The rise of Albrecht the Bear
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May 25, 2023 |
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Ep. 105 – The Foundation of Lübeck
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May 18, 2023 |
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Ep. 104 - The Making of Holstein
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May 11, 2023 |
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Ep. 103 – All the Duke’s Men - Lothar III as duke of Saxony kicks of the colonisation of the East
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May 04, 2023 |
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Ep. 102 – The Great Divide - The Investiture Controversy and its impact on the East
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 101 – Gottschalk and Adalbert - The emergence of the duchy of Mecklenburg
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 100 – The Saxon War – The Conflict between the Saxons and the Emperors breaks out in the open
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 99 – Follow the Money - The reason the Saxon nobles raided the east but did not conquer
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Ep. 98 - The Rift - The Saxon Nobles and the Emperors fall out over what to do with the East
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 97 – Rebellion! - The Slavic Wends push the Saxons back across the Elbe River
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Ep. 96 - Meet the Neighbours - Poland, Bohemia and Denmark
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 95 - Callous Kings and Murderous Margraves - The first wave of expansion east in the 10th century
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 94 - Questions and Answers
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 93 -Frederick II's Afterlife - from Fake Emperors to Ernst Kantorowics
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 92 - Papal Epilogue - form Boniface VIII's Unam Sanctam to the the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 91 - Hohenstaufen Epilogue - from Manfred of Sicily to the execution of Konradin
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 90 - Things are Falling Apart - The Battle of Parma and the death of Piero delle Vigne
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 89 - Holy War - Pope Innocent IV calls a crusade against the emperor Frederick II
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 88 - A Road to Peace - Can Genghis Khan fore a reconciliation between Frederick II and the Papacy?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Ep. 87 - The Beast out of the Sea - The War of Words between Pope and Emperor
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 86 - Oops, we did it again - Frederick II is excommunicated again!
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Ep. 85 - Cortenuova - The great (and only) victory of emperor Frederick II over Milan
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Ep. 84 - The Art of Hunting with Birds
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Ep. 83 - The Court of Frederick II
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Ep. 82 - The Constitution of the Realm - The Mainzer Landfriede on 1235
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Ep. 81 - The King in Brackets - The sad story of Henry (VII), son of the emperor and rebel
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Ep. 80: A different kind of Emperor - The Constitutions of Melfi
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Ep. 79 - Return to Sicily - Frederick II as a state builder in Sicily
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Ep. 78 – A Crusade without Crusaders - The Sixth Crusade that brings Jerusalem back
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Ep. 77 - A Nail in the Coffin - Frederick II in Germany and the Sanctification of Charlemagne
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Ep. 76 – From Urchin to Emperor - The upbringing of emperor Frederick II "Stupor Mundi"
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Ep. 75 – Wet Pants and other Miracles - Otto IV attacks Sicily and Frederick II chases him back to Germany
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 74 - A Breaking of Oaths - The Civil War between Philipp of Swabia and Otto IV
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Ep. 73 - One Pope, Three Emperors - Emperor Henry VI is dead and his son just 3 years old
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Ep. 72 - Clouds on the Horizon - Pope and emperor Henry VI clash over Sicily
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Ep. 71 - To Catch a King - What to do with Richard the Lionheart and his ransom?
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Ep. 70 - From Father to Son - Emperor Henry VI takes over
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Ep. 69 - Germany in 1200 Medieval Faith
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Ep. 68 - Germany in 1200 - The Cities
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Ep. 67 Germany in the Year 1200 - The Peasants
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Ep. 66 - The Myths of Barbarossa
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Empires of the Normans with Dr. Levi Roach
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Ep. 65 - The Third Crusade
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Ep. 64 - The Heirs of Troy - What is an Emperor for?
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Ep. 63 - Recovery - Barbarossa rebuilds his reign after defeats in Italy and at home
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Ep. 62 - The Fall of Henry the Lion
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Ep. 61 - The Peace of Venice - The reconciliation between Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III
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May 26, 2022 |
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Ep. 60 - Legnano - Barbarossa's final defeat in Italy
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May 19, 2022 |
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Ep. 59 - The City of Straw - Barbarossa's failed siege of Alessandria
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May 12, 2022 |
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Ep. 58 - The Lombard League
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May 05, 2022 |
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Ep. 57 - The Hand of God - The siege of Rome in 1167 that changes everything
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Ep. 56 - The Siege of Crema - and then Barbarossa razes Milan to the ground
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Ep. 55 - The Laws of Roncaglia - Barbarossa brings back Roman Law
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Ep. 54 - A Bohemian Bluff - Barbarossa conquers Milan for the first time
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Ep. 53 - Sacrum Imperium - The moment when the Empire becomes Holy and Roman
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Ep. 52 - The Honour of the Empire - Bringing the broken Empire back together
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Ep. 51 - The Barbarossa - Who was the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa?
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Ep. 50 - Barbarossa Begins - A Stolen Election?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Ep. 49 - Konrad's Catastrophe - The Disaster that is the Second Crusade
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Ep. 48 - Konrad's Conundrum - Imperial Coronation or Crusade?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Ep. 47 - Konrad's Coup - The Hohenstaufen Konrad III snatches the crown from the Welf
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Ep. 46 - A Topsy Turvy World - Lothar III and the schism between Anaclet II Innocent II
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Ep. 45 - Triple Division - The role of Bernard of Clairvaux
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Ep. 44 - A Saxon Emperor - Lothar III takes the crown and ends in a civil war with the Hohenstaufen
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Ep. 43- All Change, All Change - The tumultuous Election of Emperor Lothar III
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Ep. 42 - A World Revolution?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Ep. 41 - The Duke's Rebuke - Henry V has to accept the Concordat of Worms
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Ep. 40 - Henry V's Cunning Plan - Pope Paschal II offers to hand back all imperial fiefs which causes havoc
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Ep. 39 - The End of Emperor Henry IV
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Bonus - Matilda of Tuscany
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Ep. 38 - The First Crusade - Crusaders attacking the Jewish communities in Mainz, Speyer and Worms
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Ep. 37 - The Two Grooms - Countess Matilda of Tuscany marries a man 25 years her junior
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Ep. 36 - Henry IV is Coming Home
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Ep. 35 - To Rome! To Rome! - Henry IV takes revenge on pope Gregory VII
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Ep. 34 - Gaining the Upper Hand - Henry IV defeats the anti-king Rudolf von Rheinfelden
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Ep. 33 - Canossa Finally!
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Ep. 32 - Hildebrand, not Pope but false Monk - Emperor Henry IV confronts the Pope
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Ep. 31 - The (second) Saxon War - The nobles rebel against "the imperial tyrant"
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Ep. 30 - Three Roads to Canossa - Lay Piety, Reform Papacy and the Saxon Rebellion
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Ep. 29 - The Last Years of Henry III - Tyrant or consolidator of power?
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Ep. 28 - Three Popes with One Stone - The Council of Sutri in 1046
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Ep. 27 - Peace in Our Time - The Peace of God in the Middle Ages
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Ep. 26 - Henry III Comin' in Smoothly - The first seamless transition of power from father to son in 70 years
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Ep. 25 - Konrad II, the Construction of an Empire - Speyer Cathedral as a symbol of Salian power
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Ep. 24 - Konrad II's Acquisition of Burgundy - The last addition to the Empire
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Ep. 23 - Duke Ernst, Rebel and Legend - A medieval story about loyalty and friendship
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 22 - Konrad II, Who Would Have Thought - Electing a most unlikely successor to Henry II
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Ep. 21 - Q&A
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Ep. 20 - A Blank Canvas - The perception history of the Ottonians
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Ep. 19 - Henry II and the House of God - How a pious monarch organises his succession
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May 27, 2021 |
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Ep. 18 - Henry II Goes Forth - The Wars with Boleslaw Chrobry
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May 20, 2021 |
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Ep. 17 - The (not yet holy) Emperor Henry II - Fighting the rivals for the imperial crown
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May 13, 2021 |
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Ep. 16 - Germany in the year 1000 (Part 2) - The Imperial Church System
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May 06, 2021 |
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Ep. 15 - Germany in the year 1000 (Part 1) - Climate, Agriculture, Economy and medieval hygiene
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Ep. 14 - Otto III The End of a Dream
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Ep. 13 - Otto III The Wonder of the World
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 12 - The Regency of Theophanu and Adelheid
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Ep. 11 - Woe the Land that is Governed by a Child - The abduction of Otto III
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Ep. 10 - The Misfortunes One Can Endure - Otto II's fateful journey to Southern Italy
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Ep. 9 - A Matter of Habit - The new emperor Otto II has to face the usual rebellions
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Ep. 8 - An Imperial Bride - The empress Theophanu arrives
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Ep. 7 - A New Caesar - Otto the Great is crowned emperor
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Ep. 6 - A Conversation with Swords - The Battle on the Lechfeld
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Ep. 5 - The Father, the Son and the Uncle - Otto I has to deal with his rebellious son
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Ep. 4 - A Foe Wherever You Go - King Otto I settles into being a medieval ruler
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Ep. 3 - A Series of Fortunate Events - Otto I's kingdom is rescued by Konrad Kurzbold
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Ep. 2 - A Dog's Breakfast - Otto the not yet great makes some bad mistakes
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Ep. 1 - A New Beginning - King Henry the Fowler rebuilds East Francia
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Prologue - Part 3
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Prologue - Part 2
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Prologue - Part 1
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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History of the Germans - Trailer
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Jan 12, 2021 |