The Wendish Crusade
In this episode, we begin our series on the High Medieval Empire by focusing first on its northeastern frontier, where many factors would coalesce into a sudden, and permanent, push to the east by Sax...
5 Feb 58min
Series 11: Staufer Revival (1125 - 1250 AD)
In this series, we discuss how the Holy Roman Empire will change in the long term from its warrior foundings, to a transpersonal and permanent institution of Inner Europe. This process would be person...
30 Jan 18min
Hungarian-Croatian Union; A New Danube
In this episode, we continue our survey of Inner Europe during the Investiture Struggles by examining the rules and administrations of many consolidating duchies and kingdoms, including Swabia, Bavari...
22 Dec 20251h 27min
Twilight of the Warband States (Saxony, Bohemia, Poland, Kievan Rus)
In this episode, we look at 4 independent short stories, linked through a similar setting and time, that of the warband states of Eastern Central Europe in the changing times of the Investiture Contro...
12 Dec 20251h 28min
The Investiture Controversy
In this episode, we finally reach the climax of simmering tensions between papal and imperial authority over the western church. A reform movement, built on reaction against urban decadence in the Med...
24 Nov 20251h 4min
Series 10: Great Schisms; Conquerors' Penance (1054 - 1138 AD)
In the introduction for series 10 of the show, we speak of the responses that societies will face due to the dramatic changes wrought in by the High Middle Ages. Among them, we single out the Great Sc...
10 Nov 202522min
High Medieval Identity and Society
In this episode, we set up the context in which our next few series are to take place. The High Middle Ages will be a time of immense transformation for Inner Europe, a time where the world before and...
3 Nov 202549min
The Wars of Lech, Czech, Rus (and Arpad)
In this episode, we catch up with the development and Christianization of Rus Civilization, and discuss its hybridization with the other societies of Inner Europe. In doing so, we introduce some of th...
20 Okt 20251h 4min
