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Back to SearchSeries 11: Staufer Revival (1125 - 1250 AD)
Season 11 Episode 1
In this series, we discuss how the Holy Roman Empire will change in the long term from its warrior foundings, to a transpersonal and permanent instit…
8 months, 1 week ago
Hungarian-Croatian Union; A New Danube
Season 10 Episode 4
In this episode, we continue our survey of Inner Europe during the Investiture Struggles by examining the rules and administrations of many consolida…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Twilight of the Warband States (Saxony, Bohemia, Poland, Kievan Rus)
Season 10 Episode 3
In this episode, we look at 4 independent short stories, linked through a similar setting and time, that of the warband states of Eastern Central Eur…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Investiture Controversy
Season 10 Episode 2
In this episode, we finally reach the climax of simmering tensions between papal and imperial authority over the western church. A reform movement, b…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Series 10: Great Schisms; Conquerors' Penance (1054 - 1138 AD)
Season 10 Episode 1
In the introduction for series 10 of the show, we speak of the responses that societies will face due to the dramatic changes wrought in by the High …
11 months ago
High Medieval Identity and Society
Season 9 Episode 4
In this episode, we set up the context in which our next few series are to take place. The High Middle Ages will be a time of immense transformation …
11 months, 1 week ago
The Wars of Lech, Czech, Rus (and Arpad)
Season 9 Episode 3
In this episode, we catch up with the development and Christianization of Rus Civilization, and discuss its hybridization with the other societies of…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
October 2025 Update
Season 9 Episode 3
An update for the schedule of October. Beyond the next two episodes (which have been delayed but will be out in the next two weeks), the remainder of…
1 year ago
Ottonian Legacy and the Salian Transfer
Season 9 Episode 2
In this episode, we continue the political narrative of the Renewed Roman Empire in the West by talking about the later Ottonians and the early Salia…
1 year ago
Series 9: The Creation of Central Europe (983 - 1102 AD)
Season 9 Episode 1
In this series, we begin to see Inner Europe as a more defined society, interacting with entities as recognized entities, and with a shared Romano-Ge…
1 year ago