A narrative history of the German people from the Middle Ages to Reunification in 1991. Episodes are 25-35 min long and drop on Thursday mornings. "A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad". Gregory of Tours (539-594) So far we have covered: Ottonian Emperors (# 1- 21) - Henry the Fowler (#1) - Otto I (#2-8) - Otto II (#9-11) - Otto II (#11-14) - Henry II (#15-17) - Germany in 1000 (#18-21) Salian Emperors(#22-42) - Konrad II (#22- 25) - Henry III (#26-29) - Henry IV/Canossa (#30-39) - Henry V (#40-42) - Concordat of Worms (#42) Early Hohenstaufen (#43-69) - Lothar III (#43-46) - Konrad III (#47-49) - Frederick Barbarossa (#50-69) Late Hohenstaufen (#70-94) - Henry VI (#70-72) - Philipp of Swabia (#73-74) - Otto IV (#74-75) - Frederick II (#75-90) - Epilogue (#91-94) Colonisation of the East (#95-108) The Hanseatic League (#109-127) The Teutonic Knights (#128-137) From the Interregnum to the Golden Bull (#138 -185) - Rudolf von Habsburg (#139-141) - Adolf von Nassau (#142) - Albrecht von Habsburg (#143) - Heinrich VII (#144-148) - Ludwig the Bavarian (#149-153) - Karl IV (#154-163) The Reformation before the Reformation - Wenceslaus the Lazy (#165) - The Western Schism (#166/167) - The Ottomans (#168) - Sigismund (#169-#184 The Empire in the 15th Century - Mainz & Hessen #186 - Printing #187-#188 - Universities #190 - Wittelsbachs #189, #196-#199 - Baden, Wuerrtemberg, Augsburg, Fugger (#191-195) - Maps & Arms (#201-#202) The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg - Early Habsburgs (#203-#207) - Albrecht II (#208) - Friedrich III (#209-#215) - Maximilian I (#215-

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Ep. 215: Charles the Bold (1433-1477) - Death in the Cold 2025-11-20
Ep. 214: Friedrich III (1440-1493) - The Siege that Woke up an Empire 2025-11-13
Ep. 213: Friedrich III (1440-1493) – Duping the Duke of Burgundy 2025-11-06
Ep. 212: Matthias Corvinus (1443-1490) – The Library of the Raven King 2025-10-30
Ep. 211: Friedrich III (1440-1493) – Hitting Rock Bottom 2025-10-23
Ep. 210: Ladislaus Postumus (1440-1457) - Lord of all, Ruler of No One 2025-10-16
Ep. 209 – Friedrich III (1440-1493) - The First Habsburg Emperor 2025-10-02
Ep. 208: Albrecht II (1438-1439) - Boy Meets Princess, Boy Becomes King 2025-09-25
Ep.207: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437) - How the Habsburgs got their Chin 2025-09-18
Ep. 206: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437)– Division, Destruction and Degradation 2025-09-11
Ep. 205: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437) – Sempach, Birth of a Nation 2025-09-04
Ep. 204: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437) – Rudolf IV, Founder and Forger 2025-08-28
Ep. 203: Early Habsburgs – From Rudolf I to Albrecht the Wise 2025-08-21
The Fall and Rise of the House of Habsburg - Trailer 2025-08-14
Ep. 202 - Arms and Armour 2025-07-24
Ep. 201 – Mapping the World, or how Germans invented America 2025-07-17
Ep. 200 – Divide and Lose, the Leipziger Teilung 2025-07-03
Ep. 199 – How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 2 - the Economy) 2025-06-26
Ep. 198 – How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 1 - the Politics) 2025-06-19
Ep. 197 – The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in Bavaria (Part 2) 2025-06-12
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