Ep. 197 – The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in Bavaria (Part 2)
On November 14th and 15th 1475 one of the grandest events in the history of the Holy Roman Empire took place, the Landshuter Hochzeit, the nuptials of Georg, the Rich, son of Ludwig, the Rich and gran...
12 Juni 202543min
Ep. 196 – Agnes Bernauer - Love and War in Bavaria – (Part 1)
When I first recorded this episode, my nose was so bunged up, I could barely speak. So I cloned my voice and produced a whole episode using an Ai generated version of me. That was a cool experiment, b...
5 Juni 202531min
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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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
