Episode 100 – The Saxon War (Take II)
The conflict between Saxons and the empire is now hitting the hot stage, resulting in a rebellion that precedes Henry IV in Canossa.
Episode 108– from Saxony to Saxonies
How first Henry the Lion, greatest of medieval dukes, and then the great stem duchy of Saxony came to fall apart
Episode 107– The House of Wettin
The House of Wettin ruled modern day Sachsen for centuries. In this episode we explore where they came from and how they became so rich..
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.