Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence
We're revisiting an episode of Tides of History we originally released in January 2018. Pay close attention, we're going to be spending a LOT of time in Italy this summer.What was it like to have a fr...
30 Maj 201950min
Minisode: Banking
We catch up a bit more on Jakob Fugger's personality - or lack thereof - along with some of the other important south German trading firms of the age, the development of the Antwerp financial market, ...
23 Maj 201914min
Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?
At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthplace in Italy to south Germany. The key figure in that transition was Jakob Fugger of Augsburg, maybe ...
16 Maj 201953min
The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank
The Medici name still carries echoes of power and labyrinthine politics. But the Medici got their start as bankers, and built a financial empire that spanned fifteenth-century Europe. Popes, kings, an...
9 Maj 201954min
The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Stanford's Professor Richard White
The Civil War and its decades-long aftermath continue to define American life well into the twenty-first century. Today we chat with Stanford's Professor Richard White, author of The Republic For Whic...
2 Maj 201944min
Minisode: Messianic Rulers and Military Revolutions in Spain
Let's chat about some of the other interesting things Patrick discovered in his research for this month's episodes: messianic rulership and military revolutions in the Spain of Isabella and Ferdinand....
25 Apr 201922min
The Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, and the Rise of Spain
Queen Isabella of Castile was one of the great state-building monarchs of the later Middle Ages, but state-building had a dark side: the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, and the beginni...
18 Apr 201948min
Queen Isabella of Spain and the End of the Reconquista
Queen Isabella of Castile was the greatest of the state-building rulers of the late Middle Ages. During her rule, she sent Columbus to America, married Ferdinand of Aragon to launch modern Spain, and ...
11 Apr 201952min
