26 - Beautiful Burgundian Bureaucracy and the Salty Citizens of Ghent
Philip the Good may have dreamed of wearing a single crown, but while that was not the case he was just a man wearing many different hats, and if you’ve ever seen someone wearing more than one hat at ...
25 Touko 202055min
25 - Pheasant Fealty (Stuck in the Middle mit Vous)
After the Treaty of Arras in 1435, Philip the Good’s international policies had to overcome several hurdles if he was to achieve his aim of obtaining as much territory and autonomy as he could. Despit...
11 Touko 202057min
BONUS: Jan van Eyck: The Man and the Myth
Jan van Eyck, one of the Low Countries' most famous artists, lived through an extraordinary period in history, between the 1390s and the 1440s. Although much about the early Netherlandish painter’s li...
4 Touko 202040min
24 - The Lavish and the Revolting
The court of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, became widely known as the most extravagant and luxurious in Europe during the almost 50 years of his reign between 1419 and 1467. Using pomp, ceremony ...
27 Huhti 202057min
23 - Overachieving Overijsselers and Holland versus Hansa
At the beginning of the 15th century, towns in the Oversticht, the region which mostly makes up today’s modern province of Overijssel but at the time was controlled by the prince-bishop of Utrecht, re...
13 Huhti 202052min
22 - Escaping Social Isolation with a Miraculous Journey to the 1420s
As much as we may like to imagine that those at the top of the social and political ladders - the kings, queens, counts, and dukes, politicians, merchants and bankers - are the people who drive histor...
30 Maalis 20201h 1min
21 - Jacqueline of Bavaria
On his death-bed in 1417, William VI, Count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland, named his daughter Jacqueline of Bavaria as his heir. Given the financial, political and military might of these three ter...
16 Maalis 202059min
20 - Bonds Broken by Battle, Bite and Bridge
At the end of the first decade of the 1400s, everything seemed to be going peachy for John the Fearless, the Duke of Burgundy. He had resisted a large rebellion and maintained his centralising influen...
2 Maalis 202043min
