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Ep. 59: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Wars in Italy - The City of Straw
Episode 59
(1168-1174) This week we talk about Barbarossa’s next moves after his disastrous fourth Italian campaign. It takes him a few years to come to grips w…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 58: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Wars in Italy - The Lombard League
Episode 58
(1162-1167 again) This week we will talk about the second part of the pincer movement that brought that Hohenstaufen construct of imperial power cras…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 57: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Wars in Italy - Siege of Rome 1167
Episode 57
This week we do what we have done so many times and seem to be unable to avoid, talk about the conflict between pope and emperor. And that always mea…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 56: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Wars in Italy - The Fall of Crema
Episode 56
1159-1162 This week we will see how the Italian Communes take the Laws of Roncaglia. Not well is the understatement of the 12th century. Prepare for …
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 55: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Wars in Italy - The Laws of Roncaglia
Episode 55
By September 1158 Barbarossa had completed one of the shortest and most efficient Italian campaigns of the medieval period. He had set off from Augsb…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 54: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Wars in Italy - A Bohemian Bluff
Episode 54
(1158) This week we will see Barbarossa try using his freshly minted army to take down the city of Milan, a city of 150,000 and the one commune that …
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 53: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Unification of the Empire - Sacrum Imperium
Episode 53
(1155-1158) This week we will see how Barbarossa addresses the big issue he had in his first Italian campaign, the size of the army and how he create…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 52: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Unification of the Empire - The Honour of the Empire
Episode 52
1153-1155
This week we finally get our narrative going. Barbarossa will boost the honour of the empire by burning cities, hanging heretics, slaughteri…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 51: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Unification of the Empire - The Barbarossa
Episode 51
1152
In this episoe we examine Barbarossa's background, childhood and education. What is it that made him so exceptional? And we investigate whether t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 50: Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190) - Unification of the Empire - Barbarossa Begins
Episode 50
(1149-1152)
In his last few years the ill and exhausted king Conrad III relies more and more on his nephew, Frederick, the duke of Swabia called Barba…
4 years, 7 months ago