Episode 93 – Frederick II’s Afterlife
The Emperor Frederick II refuses to die. A revenant for 50 years, by1920 he is forgotten until Ernst Kantorowics produces his biography
Episode 92 – Papal Epilogue
45 years after the triumph over the Hohenstaufen, the papacy gets slapped in the face and their Babylonian Captivity begins
Episode 91 – Hohenstaufen Epilogue
Frederick II died in 1250 leaving behind four capable heirs. But over the next 18 years all of them died in the struggle with the pope
Episode 90 – Things Are Falling Apart
After the destruction of Victoria Frederick lashes out against his trusted advisor, Pietro da Vinea. Then Enzio is captured. The end is nigh.
Episode 89 – Holy War
Pope Innocent IV declared a crusade against the emperor, the first purely political crusade. It culminates in a showdown before Parma
Episode 88 – A Road to Peace
Frederick II was desperate to reconcile with the pope. Though his foe Gregory IX had died, and he offered submission, things did not improve..
Episode 87 – The Beast out of the Sea
Excommunication is not the end, but deposition could be. Frederick must to avoid that at all cost – even by battle at sea
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..