Ep. 157: The Black Death and other Calamities (1346-1400)
In around 1320 near the lake Issy-Kul in Kyrgysistan the rats started dying. Shortly after the inhabitants became affected with terrible diseases. Some started coughing up blood and all who did, died ...
1 Aug 202434min
Ep. 156: Karl IV (1346-1378) - What Price a Crown
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 contested imperial elections in the 427 years we have c...
25 Jul 202425min
Ep. 155: Karl IV (1346-1378) - Youth of an Emperor
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 emperors was pure conjecture derived from their action...
18 Jul 202428min
Ep. 154 - The Blind King John of Bohemia (1296-1346)
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 people that the battle had begun. Although he was in fu...
11 Jul 202440min
Ep. 153: The Rise of the City of Nürnberg in the 14th Century
“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 astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus moved to Nurnberg...
27 Jun 202427min
Ep.152: Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347) - The (not so) Ugly Duchess Margarete Maultasch
“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-year old Prince Johann of Bohemia. [..]Still and seri...
13 Jun 202435min
Ep. 151: Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347) - The Kurverein zu Rhens
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 church owned land, privileges, entire counties and duchi...
6 Jun 202437min
Ep. 150: Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347) - The Last Chivalric Battles – Morgarten and Mühldorf
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 of the Middle Ages are replaced by a process of tria...
30 Mai 202438min
