Episode 221 –Taking Back Control
Maximilian returned to the Empire in 1489 to find thingsin a mess. Cousin Sigismund was wasting the family fortune, the enemy still held Vienna and teh imperial princes were unhelpful in the extreme
Episode 220 – The Burgundian Experience(s)
Maximilian, newly crowned King of Romans, gets imprisoned by rebellious Flemish citizens during a turbulent power struggle.
Where To Go in Germany ? (Part 2)
In this bonus podcast I give you my subjective list of 2 destinations for each Bundesland I believe is worth visiting – enjoy!
Where To Go in Germany? (Part 1)
In this bonus podcast I give you my subjective list of 2 destinations for each Bundesland I believe is worth visiting – enjoy!
Episode 219 – The Fall of Ghent
Singapore is only one true city state left. Why did they go? The fall of Ghent in 1485 is a prime example of how they disappeared.
Episode 218 – Of Hedgehogs and Herons
By 1477 the rules of war that had been enshrined in the laws of chivalry are gone. The contest between the French and the Habsburgs over the inheritance of the Grand Dukes of the West gives us a foretaste of the things to come.
Episode 217 – When Mary Met Maxi
“Let others wage war; you, happy Austria, marry”, that is what we are told. The reality was very different – invasion, rebellion, execution…
Episode 216 – The Youth of Emperor Maximilian I
The Delights and Horrors of the Childhood of the Last Knight
Episode 215 – The Bold in the Cold
In just three years, between 1473 and 1477, Charles the Bold fritters away the mythical wealth of the Burgundian Dukes…
Episode 214 – The Siege that Woke up an Empire
The siege of Neuss and the trial of Peter von Hagenbach changed the way the Holy Roman Empire worked – and internatioonal law