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 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 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 28 – Three Popes with One Stone
In 1046 Henry III finally has time to go to Rome. He finds out that pope Gregory VI has bought the papacy for cold hard cash, a sin that could invalidate his coronation. Henry III gets involved, deposes all three competing popes and inadvertently starts a chain of events that ends in what Norman Cantor calls “the first of the three world revolutions”.
Episode 174 – The Trial of Jan Hus
The Council of Constance – part 4 “They will roast a goose now, but after one hundred years they will hear a swan sing, and him they will have to endure.” These were allegedly the last words of a certain Jan Hus whose surname meant goose and who was burned at the stake on July […]
Episode 173 – Ending the Schism
The Council of Constance – part 3 We have talked about church reform for almost four years, the council of Constance talked about church reform for about the same amount of time and Luther will talk and write about church reform until he did no longer believe that the church could be reformed. But what […]
Episode 171 – Cleaning House
The Council of Constance get srid of surplus popes making it a pivotal moment in the history of the Catholic Church and of Europe in general.
Episode 41 – the Concordat of Worms
In this week’s episode Henry V the last of the Salians will find that despite all his efforts, the tide of history cannot be stemmed, leaving him in almost exactly the same place his father ended up in 1076.