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 Apr 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Nov 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 Okt 20221h 2min
BONUS: The Ninth Art: Flipping through the pages of comic history in the Low Countries
We flip through the pages of comic history in the Low Countries; from the use of illustrated prints from as early as the 15th century to the position of comic studios in Belgium and the Netherlands du...
19 Sep 20221h 8min
