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
26 - Beautiful Burgundian Bureaucracy and the Salty Citizens of Ghent
Philip the Good may have dreamed of wearing a single crown, but while that was not the case he was just a man wearing many different hats, and if you’ve ever seen someone wearing more than one hat at ...
25 Maj 202055min
25 - Pheasant Fealty (Stuck in the Middle mit Vous)
After the Treaty of Arras in 1435, Philip the Good’s international policies had to overcome several hurdles if he was to achieve his aim of obtaining as much territory and autonomy as he could. Despit...
11 Maj 202057min
BONUS: Jan van Eyck: The Man and the Myth
Jan van Eyck, one of the Low Countries' most famous artists, lived through an extraordinary period in history, between the 1390s and the 1440s. Although much about the early Netherlandish painter’s li...
4 Maj 202040min
24 - The Lavish and the Revolting
The court of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, became widely known as the most extravagant and luxurious in Europe during the almost 50 years of his reign between 1419 and 1467. Using pomp, ceremony ...
27 Apr 202057min
23 - Overachieving Overijsselers and Holland versus Hansa
At the beginning of the 15th century, towns in the Oversticht, the region which mostly makes up today’s modern province of Overijssel but at the time was controlled by the prince-bishop of Utrecht, re...
13 Apr 202052min
