History of the Germans from the Middle Ages to Reunification

Dirk Hoffmann-Becking 342 - Trailer for The Early Habsburgs - Their Fall and Rise

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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History of the Germans from the Middle Ages to Reunification

Episoade

Trailer for The Early Habsburgs - Their Fall and Rise

Ep. 203: Early Habsburgs – From Rudolf I to Albrecht the Wise

Ep. 204: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437) – Rudolf IV, Founder and Forger

Ep. 205: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437) – Sempach, Birth of a Nation

Ep. 206: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437)– Division, Destruction and Degradation

Ep.207: Habsburg Dukes (1308-1437) - How the Habsburgs got their Chin

Ep. 208: Albrecht II (1438-1439) - Boy Meets Princess, Boy Becomes King

Ep. 209: Friedrich III (1440-1493) - The First Habsburg Emperor

Ep. 210: Ladislaus Postumus (1440-1457) - Lord of all, Ruler of No One

Ep. 211: Friedrich III (1440-1493) – Hitting Rock Bottom

Ep. 212: Matthias Corvinus (1443-1490) – The Library of the Raven King

Ep. 213: Friedrich III (1440-1493) – Duping the Duke of Burgundy

Ep. 214: Friedrich III (1440-1493) - The Siege that Woke up an Empire

Ep. 215: Charles the Bold (1433-1477) - Death in the Cold

Ep. 216: Maximilian I (1493-1519) - The Youth of an Emperor

Ep. 217: Maximilian I (1493-1519) – When Mary Met Maxi

Ep. 218: Maximilian I (1493-1519) – The Death of Mary of Burgundy

Ep.219: Maximilian I (1493-1519) – The Fall of Ghent

Ep. 220: Maximilian I (1493-1519) - The Burgundian Experience(s)

Ep. 221: Maximilian I (1493-1519) – Taking Back Austria and Tyrol

Ep. 222: Maximilian I (1493-1519) – Italian Wars and Spanish Marriages

Ep. 223: Imperial Reform 1495 – The Diet of Worms

Ep. 224: Imperial Reform 1495 – The Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire

Ep. 225: Imperial Reform 1495 - The Ewige Landfrieden (Public Peace) of 1495

The Imperial Reform of 1495 with Prof. Duncan Hardy

Ep. 226: Maximilian I (1493-1519) - A Grand Plan for a Great War

Ep. 227: Landsknechte vs. Swiss Mercenaries – The Swabian (Swiss) War of 1499

Ep. 228: Maximilian I (1493-1519) - The Princes and the Emperor.

Ep. 229: Joanna the (not?) Mad (1504-1555) - How the Habsburgs gained Spain

Ep.230: Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) - The League of Cambrai

Ep. 231: Maximilian I (1493-1519) - Marrying Bohemia and Hungary

Ep. 232: The Ottomans – From Mehmet the Conqueror to Selim the Grim (1444-1520)

Ep. 233: Maximilian I (1493-1519) - Last Days and Legacy

Ep. 234: The Charisma of Emperor Maximilian (1493-1519)

Ep. 235: The Youth and Election of the Emperor Charles V (1520-1555)

Ep. 236: Charles V (1520-1555) - The Battle of Pavia

Ep. 237: How Italy Fell to the Habsburgs - From the Peace of Madrid to the Sack of Rome 1527.

Ep. 238: The Habsburg Empire at its Zenith - Ferdinand I and the Siege of Vienna

Ep. 240 Martin Luther - His Youth and His "Anfechtungen"

Ep. 239 The Faith of the Common People

The Most Consequential Figure in European History?

Where To Go in Germany - Part 2

Where To Go in Germany - Part 1

Ep. 202: Arms and Armour

Ep. 201: Mapping the World, or how Germans invented America

Ep. 200: Divide and Lose, the Division of Saxony - Leipziger Teilung in 1485

Ep. 199: How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 2 - the Economy)

Ep. 198: How Holland was Lost to the Holy Roman Empire (Part 1 - the Politics)

Ep. 197: The Landshuter Hochzeit – Love and War in 15th Century Bavaria (Part 2)

Ep. 196: Agnes Bernauer - Love and War in 15th Century Bavaria – (Part 1)