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2024-11-07

  Ep. 169 – Sigismund, the (not yet) Emperor

The late 14th and early 15th century was a period of upheaval, the certainties of the Middle Ages, that the pope ruled the world and that knights were invincible were crumbling away, the long period of economic growth, of eastward expansion and convers...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-10-31

  From Osman to Nicopolis: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

The 168th episode of the History of the Germans delves into the transformative period of the Ottomans from Osman to the Battle of Nicopolis. It highlights how Osman, the son of an Anatolian warlord, laid the foundations for what would become one of the...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-10-24

  Ep. 167 - The Great Western Schism - Part 2

When the Great Western Schism was finally resolved at Pisa and Constance, Christendom rejoiced. Or so we have been told. But was it really such a devastating, catastrophic event that left the papacy mortally wounded, so impaired that it crumbled when ...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-10-17

  Ep. 166 – The Great Western Schism – Part 1

If you are a longstanding listener to the History of the Germans, you will already know that sometime in the late 14th century the catholic church broke apart into 2 and then 3 different obediences, three popes residing in different places and being re...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-10-10

  Ep. 165 - Wenceslaus the Lazy and Ruprecht of the Empty Pocket

“And since these especially ruinous harms to all of Christendom are not to be tolerated or suffered any longer, so we have completely agreed – with a well-considered disposition, by means of much and various discussion and counsel, which we have earnes...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-10-03

  Season 9 - The Reformation before the Reformation - Season Opener

On 31st of October 1517 a hitherto unknown professor at the smallish university of Wittenberg published 95 theses. And by doing so, he unleashed a sequence of events that would fundamentally change the face of Europe and still defines communities and n...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-09-26

  Germany at War - A Guest Episode from Not so Quiet on the Western Front

As you know I am still working on getting season 9 to the staring blocks. The good news is that we will be kicking off on October 3 embarking on journey that will take us to  the council of Constance, the Hussite wars, the emergence of Burgundy and the...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-09-19

  Charles IV. A Portrait of a Medieval Ruler - Interview with Václav Žůrek

The Emperor and King Charles IV (1316-1378) represents today an untouchable monument in Czech history, carved into the marble of admiration and clichés. Although a new and thorough study of his reign is yet to be written, it is nevertheless useful to i...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-09-12

  Ep. 163 – Succession and Legacy

This is the last episode of this season and it is time to say goodbye to Karl IV, Ludwig the Bavarian, Henry VII, Albrecht of Habsburg, Adolf von Nassau and Rudolf of Habsburg. These have been some eventful 138 years. When Karl IV died in 1378 he left ...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author
2024-09-05

  Ep. 162 – Schisms and Deals

For more than a hundred years the Holy Roman Empire was a mess of constant infighting between and within the great princely families. But by the 1360s the consistent policies and elaborate diplomacy of emperor Karl IV had produced a degree of stability...
  Dirk Hoffmann-Becking author