Ep. 96: Colonisation of the East(700-1200) - The Neighbours - Poland, Bohemia and Denmark
This week we are still getting our bearings. Last week we saw the emergence of the Stem duchy of Saxony and the Eastern marches. This week we take a look at the most important neighbours to the East a...
9 Mar 202333min
Ep. 95: Colonisation of the East(700-1200) - Callous Kings and Murderous Margraves
I have to start with an admission. I promised you a History of the Germans but I am afraid there is no such thing. All I can give you is the histories of the German people. The last 94 episodes you ha...
2 Mar 202337min
Ep. 94 - Questions and Answers
Here we are. 2 years of the History of the Germans Podcast. 93 main episodes and 102 when we count bonus episodes, interviews and the like. That makes 3,223 minutes or 2d, 5h and 43minutes of recorded...
9 Feb 202342min
Ep. 93: Frederick II's Afterlife - from Fake Emperors to Ernst Kantorowics
On July 7th, 1285, a sunny day in the city of Wetzlar, a day’s ride north of Frankfurt acrid smoke rises from a mighty pyre built up just outside its walls. The pyre was for an emperor, or at least a ...
2 Feb 202336min
Ep. 92: Pope Boniface VIII - Showdown with the Papacy - Papal Epilogue
The popes have won the 200-year fight with the emperors, first the Salians and then the Hohenstaufen. A total war that ended in total victory. The imperial family of the Henrys of Waiblingen has been ...
26 Jan 202337min
Ep. 91: Konrad IV, Manfred and Konradin (1250-1268) - Hohenstaufen Epilogue
When Frederick II died in 1250 there were four legitimate male descendants of the emperor, his son Konrad IV, elected king of the Romans, his son Henry, a mere six years old, but from most noble blood...
19 Jan 202335min
Ep. 90: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Showdown with the Papacy - Things Are Falling Apart
This week things will indeed be falling apart. The never-ending war is exactly what it is, a never ending, unwinnable war against an enemy that hides on the other side of the Alps and cannot be attack...
12 Jan 202330min
Ep. 89: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Showdown with the Papacy - Holy War against the Emperor
This week the epic struggle between empire and papacy goes into its final stretch. The pope has fled to Lyon. There he calls a church council which Frederick is now unable to forestall. Pope Innocent ...
5 Jan 202331min
