31 - A Luckless Legate in Liège
At the beginning of 1468, after having crushed a second uprising in Liège in the space of two years, Charles the Bold set about the all-important task of figuring out to whom he was going to marry. At...
5 Okt 202059min
BONUS: A Notable Little Podcast of Cookery in the Low Countries
When it comes to food, Flanders and the Netherlands are not two peas in a pod. What is the influence of religion on our cuisine? Why do Belgians love eating out at restaurants? Which recipes can be fo...
24 Sep 202045min
BONUS: Rembrandt and the Revolting Batavians
To tide you over in our absence during the summer break, we decided to reboot an episode of our previous podcast entitled 'Rembrandt and the Revolting Batavians'. We'll be back with regular programmin...
19 Aug 20201h 29min
30 - A Rebuke of the New Duke
Upon becoming the Duke of Burgundy, along with all the titles that came with it, Charles the Bold inherited the complex series of social revolts that were either simmering or boiling over in places li...
3 Aug 20201h 4min
29 - Dinant, Was...
Charles, the Count of Charolais, began to take a more dominant role in the Burgundian court after the forced reconciliation with his father, Philip the Good, in January 1464. By midway through the nex...
20 Juli 20201h 7min
BONUS: A Pint-Sized History of Beer and Brewing in the Low Countries
Why did the Dutch drink almost four times as much beer in the fifteenth century as they do today? Why would the Beer Drinking War be a better name for The Eighty Years' War? And why is the longest-sta...
6 Juli 202056min
28 - The Strained Reins of a Waning Reign
In the final decade of his reign, Philip the Good was obsessed with the idea of a crusade against the Ottoman Turks. The complexities of the diverse state that he had built, however, would never allow...
22 Juni 202044min
27 - Picking Bishops and Familial Fissures
When Philip the good went to the Imperial Diet in Regensburg in 1454 it gave his son and heir, Charles, the count of Charolais, a chance to get some practice at ruling in his stead, giving subjects in...
8 Juni 202058min
