The podcast that does what it says on the tin: a narrative history of the German people that starts in the year 919 AD and hopes to get all the way to 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. As Gregory of Tours (539-594) said: "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad" . The show is now entering its 8th season. So far we have covered: The Ottonian Emperors (Ep. 1- 21) - Henry the Fowler (Ep. 1) - Otto I (Ep. 2-8) - Otto II (Ep.9-11) - Otto II (Ep. 11-14) - Henry II (ep. 15-17) - Germany in the Year 1000 (ep. 18-21) The Salian Emperors and the Investiture Controversy (Ep. 22-42) - Konrad II (Ep. 22- 25) - Henry III (Ep. 26-29) - Henry IV & Canossa (Ep. 30-39) - Henry V and the Concordat of Worms (Ep. 40-42) Barbarossa and the early Hohenstaufen (Ep. 43-69) - Lothar III (Ep. 43-46) - Konrad III (Ep. 47-49) - Frederick Barbarossa (Ep. 50-69) Frederick II and the later Hohenstaufen (Ep. 70-94) -Henry VI (Ep. 70-72) - Philipp of Swabia (Ep. 73-74) - Otto IV (Ep. 74-75) - Frederick II (Ep. 75-90) - Epilogue (ep. 91-94) Eastern Expansion (Ep. 95-108) The Hanseatic League (Ep. 109-127) The Teutonic Knights (Ep...
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episode 146: The Return of the King – Henry VII’s Journey to Rome
In the winter of 1310 the emperor elect Henry VII not yet 40 years of age and every inch a king appears in Italy. An Italy torn apart by incessant violence, between and within the cities. Allegedly it is a struggle between the pro-imperial Ghibellines and the pro-papal Guelphs, but 60 years after the last emperor had set foot on Italian soil and seven years after the pope has left for Avignon, these designations have become just names without meaning, monikers hiding the naked ambitions of the powerful families.
The poet Dante Aligheri projects the hopes of many desperate exiles on Henry when he prays that “we, who for so long have passed our nights in the desert, shall behold the gladness for which we have longed, for Titan shall arise pacific, and justice, which had languished without sunshine at the end of the winter's solstice, shall grow green once more”.
A lot to get done for our Luxemburg count and his army of 5,000 men. Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?
The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau under Common Creative Licence 3.0.
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To make it easier for you to share the podcast, I have created separate playlists for some of the seasons that are set up as individual podcasts. they have the exact same episodes as in the History of the Germans, but they may be a helpful device for those who want to concentrate on only one season.
So far I have:
The Ottonians
Salian Emperors and Investiture Controversy
Fredrick Barbarossa and Early Hohenstaufen
Frederick II Stupor Mundi
Saxony and Eastward Expansion
The Hanseatic League
The Teutonic Knights
The Holy Roman Empire 1250-1356