Ep. 195 – Engraving the German Renaissance
Last year I went to an exhibition at the Städel museum in Frankfurt that was entitled Holbein and the Renaissance in the North. That is the elder Holbein, the father of the Holbein who came to England...
22 Mai 202535min
Ep. 194 – The Fuggers of Augsburg
Hello and welcome to the History of the Germans: Episode 194 – The Fuggers of Augsburg, which is also episode 10 of Season 10 “The Empire in the 15th Century”Jakob Fugger had been dubbed the Richest M...
15 Mai 202550min
Ep. 193 - The Trade and Tribulations of the Free Imperial Cities
Ravensburg, and you are very much forgiven if you cannot place it on the map, is today a town of 50,000 in the far south eastern corner of Baden-Württemberg between Friedrichshafen, home of the Zeppel...
8 Mai 202537min
Ep. 192: Duchy of Württemberg - Turning Wine into Winning
The counts, dukes and ultimately kings of Württemberg had risen to the top by winning the genetic lottery. Their eldest sons tended to be competent, some even extremely so, their wives brought in dowr...
1 Mai 202547min
Ep. 191 – The Margraviate of Baden - Enlightened Excesses
What is it like to be a prince? Well, not quite what it is set out to be, in particular when you are a smaller prince, not in stature, but in land.The margraves of Baden are such princes. In the 15th ...
24 Apr 202542min
Ep. 190: A (very) brief History of the German Universities
Between the time the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901 and 1933, a total of 31 were awarded to German scientists and politicians. To name just a few, Wilhelm Röntgen (1901), Max Planck (1918), Alb...
17 Apr 202547min
Ep. 189: The Count Palatine on the Rhine
This week it is back to the political landscape of the empire. We will travel upriver from Mainz via Worms and the not yet existent cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen to Heidelberg, my old hometown.A...
10 Apr 202536min
Ep. 188: What Has Printing Ever Done For Us?
“We should note the force, effect, and consequences of inventions which are nowhere more conspicuous than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, namely printing, gunpowder and the compass....
3 Apr 202537min
