Episode 156 – What Price a Crown
Another election, another succession crisis in the Holy Roman Empire – will Karl IV find a way to put an end to this?
Episode 155– The Youth of Emperor Karl IV
The emperor Karl IV has divine visions. Not quite what you were expecting, but as it happened a good window into his way of thinking. But do not worry, Karl wasn’t just an excessively devout collector of relics, he was at the same time an astute and often ruthless politician who gave the Holy Roman empire its constitution and placed his heirs on the throne for the next centuries.
Episode 154– The Blind King John of Bohemia
John of Bohemia wasn’t the last knight, but he was a figure of a world that was slowly fading away. A world where armoured men on horseback were invincible and hence had to be tamed by a complex set of rules they called the chivalric code.