The Reformation before the Reformation

The late 14th and early 15th century was a period of upheaval, the certainties of the Middle Ages, that the pope ruled the world and that knights were invincible were crumbling away, the long period o...

23 Apr 202545min

This week we delve into the transformative period of the Ottomans from Osman to the Battle of Nicopolis. It highlights how Osman, the son of an Anatolian warlord, laid the foundations for what would b...

16 Apr 202543min

When the Great Western Schism was finally resolved at Pisa and Constance, Christendom rejoiced.Or so we have been told. But was it really such a devastating, catastrophic event that left the papacy mo...

9 Apr 202543min

If you are a longstanding listener to the History of the Germans, you will already know that sometime in the late 14th century the catholic church broke apart into 2 and then 3 different obediences, t...

2 Apr 202542min

“And since these especially ruinous harms to all of Christendom are not to be tolerated or suffered any longer, so we have completely agreed – with a well-considered disposition, by means of much and ...

26 Mar 202535min

On 31st of October 1517 a hitherto unknown professor at the smallish university of Wittenberg published 95 theses. And by doing so, he unleashed a sequence of events that would fundamentally change th...

11 Mar 202544min