Episode 86 – Oops, we did it Again
After his victory over the Lombards, emperor Frederick II hurtles at ever increasing speed towards excommunication and doom..
Episode 85 – Cortenuova
The last great battle that made the HRE look as if it was indeed, Holy, Roman and an Empire
Episode 84 – The Art of Hunting with Birds
„Art of Hunting with Birds“ commissioned by the emperor Frederick II is as much a book about hunting as The Old Man and the Sea is about fishing..
Episode 83 – The Court of Frederick II
At Foggia a circle of poets were the first to write in Italian and invented the Sonnet, plus tales taller than the giraffe in his garden
Episode 82 – The Constitution of the Realm
In 1235 the imperial princes came to Mainz to celebrate the new modus operandi of the Holy Roman Empire: Everybody gets Everything they want
Episode 81 – The King in Brackets
The sad story of Henry (VII) eldest son and heir of emperor Frederick II who dies of his inability to understand the father he had barely ever met
Episode 80 – A different kind of Emperor
The constitutions of Melfi of 1231 were the most advanced, most modern law in the Middle Ages foreshadowing Machiavelli and Hobbes
Episode 79 – Return to Sicily
In 1220-28 Frederick II breaks the power of the barons, expels the Pisans and Genoese and creates the Muslim colony in Lucera
Episode 78 – A Crusade without Crusaders
Frederick II sets off on crusade as an excommunicate. he has a year to regain Jerusalem, otherwise all will be lost
Episode 77 – A Nail in the Coffin
The reign of Frederick II in Germany from 1212 to1220 drives both a real and a metaphorical nail in the coffin of Charlemagne