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Ep. 157: The Black Death and other Calamities (1346-1400)
Episode 157
In around 1320 near the lake Issy-Kul in Kyrgysistan the rats started dying. Shortly after the inhabitants became affected with terrible diseases. So…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 156: Karl IV (1346-1378) - What Price a Crown
Episode 156
The year is 1346 and we have, yes, another succession crisis. Without checking through my 1500 pages of transcripts, I have counted a total f 14 cont…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 155: Karl IV (1346-1378) - Youth of an Emperor
Episode 155
You have heard me complaining regularly over the last 154 episodes that what we report as political ambitions or strategic plans of the kings and emp…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 154 - The Blind King John of Bohemia (1296-1346)
Episode 154
The noble and gallant King of Bohemia, also known as John of Luxemburg because he was the son of the Emperor Henry of Luxemburg, was told by his peop…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 153: The Rise of the City of Nürnberg in the 14th Century
Episode 153
“In the same way that Jerusalem is the navel of the world, is Nurnberg the navel of Germany” is how Matthäus Dresser described the city in 1581. The …
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep.152: Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347) - The (not so) Ugly Duchess Margarete Maultasch
Episode 152
“The twelve-year-old Margarete, Princess of Carinthia and Tyrol, was travelling from her seat near Meran to Innsbruck for her wedding with the ten-ye…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 151: Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347) - The Kurverein zu Rhens
Episode 151
This week we look at the central intellectual debate of the 14th century, did Jesus own property? If yes, then it was right and proper that the churc…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 150: Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347) - The Last Chivalric Battles – Morgarten and Mühldorf
Episode 150
The 14th century is a time of fundamental change in practically all areas of social, political and economic life. It is a time when the certainties o…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 149: Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347) - The Real Ludwig of Bavaria
Episode 149
A few months after emperor Henry VII had died in the Tuscan village of Buonconvento and before a successor had been elected, a young man, Ludwig, sec…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 148: Henry VII (1308-1313) - Imperial Swansong
Episode 148
The year is 1312 and Henry VII is finally embarking on his journey to Rome that will bring about the first imperial coronation in almost a century an…
2 years, 5 months ago