Episode 46 – A Topsy Turvy World
Lothar III is dragged into the schism between Innocent II and Anaclet II. Thanks to the efforts of Bernard of Clairvaux he receives little for his efforts.
Episode 45 – Triple Division
The church is split three ways though Bernard of Clairvaux stands ready in the wings to push it just where he wants it
Episode 44 – A Saxon Emperor
Lothar III takes the reins of the kingdom but soon finds opposition from the Hohenstaufen brothers
Episode 43 – All Change All Change
The age of the Hohenstaufen starts with emperor Lothar III who was not a Hohenstaufen at all – how could that happen?
Episode 105 – The Foundation of Lübeck
Episode 105 is out! today we look at how a small settlement on a minor river became the second largest city in the empire north of the Alps
EPISODE 104 – The Making of Holstein
After 200 years of raiding and plundering the Slavic lands north and east of the Elbe River the Saxon magnates have a change of heart with consequences that impacted Eastern European history for centuries to come
Episode 103 – All the Duke’s Men
Precious freedoms gained in bloody struggles can be lost easily in the subsequent peace, not to the old adversary, but to new, homegrown usurpers. That is at least one way of telling the story, the other being, that every major political upheaval is followed by a period of consolidation that embeds the gains made and truncates the excesses that appeared during the revolutionary period.