BONUS: Protests movements in the Low Countries
Just as much as Dutch and Flemish culture today have been defined by their ability to seek consensus through compromise, so too have they defined by a willingness to angrily, and often violently, take...
19 Kesä 20231h 13min
BONUS: Sacrificial Pigs, Sexy Chickens and Scary Shipworms: Animals of the Low Countries
What do black chickens have to do with witchcraft? Why were pigs not allowed to walk the streets freely in the Middle Ages? And should we welcome the return of the wolf or not? You'll hear the answers...
11 Huhti 202355min
BONUS: A Traumatic Relationship with Water
When the Netherlands and Belgium did not exist, people spoke of the Low Countries when referring to the area around the river deltas. Water has always played an essential role in the history of that r...
20 Helmi 20231h 2min
49 - The Willing Bride
The double marriage between the Habsburg and Spanish dynasties organised in the creation of the Holy League in 1495 was part of a larger plan driven by the Spanish monarchs to create a general Europea...
6 Helmi 20231h 5min
48 - Holy League, Holy Matrimony
When French king Charles VIII laid claims to the Kingdom of Naples and invaded Italy in September, 1494, an anti-French coalition called the League of Venice was formed, with the aim of kicking France...
23 Tammi 202354min
47 - Philip Croit-Conseil
When Philip the Handsome came of age and took over direct rule of the previously Burgundian, now Habsburg, territories of the Low Countries in September, 1494, his accession marked the first time sinc...
9 Tammi 202349min
BONUS: Trailblazing Women from the Low Countries
Throughout the history of the Low Countries, people from this part of the world have been pioneers in almost every sense of the word. Whether by seeking out and charting far away lands during the Euro...
21 Marras 202257min
46 - The Treaty of Senlis
In March 1492, the town burghers and knights of Guelders hailed Charles of Egmont as their duke, beginning a four decade period of bitter, contested conflict with the Habsburg Burgundian state. That’s...
24 Loka 20221h 2min
