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Walls throughout History: An Interview with Professor David Frye
Season 3 Episode 16
What creates civilization, in the most basic sense? According to Professor David Frye, who joins me this week, it's walls - Hadrian's Wall, the Great…
7 years, 3 months ago
The Italian Wars, Part 1
Season 3 Episode 15
The Italian Wars were the defining conflict of the sixteenth century, bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Today, we…
7 years, 3 months ago
Minisode: Military Revolutions
Season 3 Episode 14
It's a concept! It's a feeling! It's... been a long time since we talked about it. We're throwing it back to 2017 and tracing the evolution of war in…
7 years, 3 months ago
Why Bother with the Seventeenth Century? An Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers
Season 3 Episode 13
Friend of the show Keith Pluymers returned for a great chat about fuel, environmental history, and why the seventeenth century is worth studying.
You …
7 years, 4 months ago
Condottieri: War for Profit in Renaissance Italy
Season 3 Episode 12
In Renaissance Italy, war was simultaneously art, science, and big business, waged for profit and glory by hired contractors known as condottieri. To…
7 years, 4 months ago
Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy
Season 3 Episode 11
Renaissance Italy was a political minefield, where backstabbing dukes, ambitious republics, and disloyal mercenaries created a laboratory for politic…
7 years, 4 months ago
Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence
Season 3 Episode 10
We're revisiting an episode of Tides of History we originally released in January 2018. Pay close attention, we're going to be spending a LOT of time…
7 years, 4 months ago
Minisode: Banking
Season 3 Episode 9
We catch up a bit more on Jakob Fugger's personality - or lack thereof - along with some of the other important south German trading firms of the age…
7 years, 4 months ago
Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?
Season 3 Episode 8
At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthplace in Italy to south Germany. The key figure in t…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank
Season 3 Episode 7
The Medici name still carries echoes of power and labyrinthine politics. But the Medici got their start as bankers, and built a financial empire that…
7 years, 5 months ago