History of the Germans Podcast

@hotgpod.bsky.social three question on Charles IV on University Challenge in the latest episode! Knew all the answers, of course, thanks to HOTGPOD 🔥

The Reichstag, the assembly of the electors, princes and cities of the Holy Roman Empire was weirder but more effective than usually believed..
Find out more in the latest episode of the History of the Germans Podcast available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Great to hear you enjoyed it!

Very nicely put!

I thought I was doing well for my @hotgpod.bsky.social Places to See in Germany list but even in the west there are gaps that yawned as the pod went on.

(And the east is a disaster but I am not in a position to go off piste this year.

Pining for Naumburg: my tourist woe.)

Episode 221 –Taking Back Control • History of the Germans Podcast Maximilian returned to the Empire in 1489 to find thingsin a mess. Cousin Sigismund was wasting the family fortune, the enemy still held Vienna and teh imperial princes were unhelpful in the extreme

The new episode of the History of the Germans Pdcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and as on my website.
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After 13 years of fighting in the Low Countries, Maximilian, now king of the Roman, returns home to a rammed full inbox. His cousin, the dissolute count Sigismund of Tyrol who is selling out the family fortune. The king of Hungary is still occupying Vienna – and a new heiress come on the market

As the legendary Lübeck Bürgermeister Hinrich Castrop and leader of the Hanseatic League put it in the late 15th century: „it is always easier to hoist the banner of war but a lot more costly taking it down in honour”……

In Germany, every year on New Year's Eve they publish the results of the year-long survey of which city in Germany is the happiest. It is a long-standing tradition and without fail the city of Neuss always wins. That is why it is common to great the new year screaming "Frohes Neuss!"
Frohes Neuss.

Where To Go in Germany - Part 1 Podcast-Folge · History of the Germans · F220 · 41 Min.

Lovely summary of selected places to must visit in 🇩🇪
Perfect description of Hamburg btw, no complaints here! 😉
🙏 @hotgpod.bsky.social

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Itineraries of 25 Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, 919 to 1519

Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common, yet insufficiently researched pre-modern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire AD 919-1519, we argue that rulers focused on monitoring `marginal' elites. Powerful rulers could count on family members and thus targeted unrelated local elites. Weak emperors had to monitor their less loyal relatives and left unrelated nobles unvisited. We reconstruct emperors' itineraries from 72'665 dated and geolocated documents and measure territorial control by their relatives. Exploiting the weakening of imperial power through the Great Interregnum (1250-1273), we find that strong, pre-1250 emperors frequented areas controlled by their relatives relatively less. In contrast, family control increased visits post-1273. Causal identification rests on the discontinuous reduction of emperors' power through the Great Interregnum and differences in family relations between subsequent emperors. The results show strategic itinerant rule as an important but understudied form of governance.

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Thanks - that looks amazing

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Episode 218 – Of Hedgehogs and Herons • History of the Germans Podcast By 1477 the rules of war that had been enshrined in the laws of chivalry are gone. The contest between the French and the Habsburgs over the inheritance of the Grand Dukes of the West gives us a foret...

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New Episode - the War that Made the Habsburgs

I watched a few clips on YouTube - not sure I will buy the whole series. Did you watch it?

“Let others wage war; you, happy Austria, marry”, that is what we are told. The reality was very different – invasion, rebellion, execution…
New episode out today

Simon and Jess have done a brilliant job making us all sound clever - so well worth listening to

No worries - I am repairing the website and there was something going wrong. Sorry about that.

Vielen Dank - Die erste Haelfte fand ich extrem interessant. Der zweite Teil mit der Kategorisierung als "historische Figur" ist nicht mein Ding....und ich glaube Christopher Clark fand das auch ncht so klasse..

Turkeys may not vote for Christmas but pigs have an ambivalent relationship with the whole month of December since the 9th century….

From the Salzburg manuscript c. 818 AD

Why did the Venetians chase bulls through the streets? This week we explain, while @hotgpod.bsky.social and A History of Italy Pod tell us about Barbarossa's Italian policy of the 1160s.👑
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Within less than 3 years, 1474 to 1477, Charles the Bold had frittered away the mythical wealth of the Burgundian dukes.
How he did that and why it matters is what we talk about today.

#habsburg #burgundy #switzerland #Alsace #Valois #holyromanempire #tyrol #savoy #lorraine #nancy #murten

Three for th price of One!
The most excellent History of Venice Podcast has just published #1 of a 3-part series about the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in Italy.
And the best thing about it....it features another one of my favourite podcasters, Mike Corradi from A History of Italy and yours truly...

The small city of Neuss held out against the warmachine of Charles the Bold, the Grand Duke fo the West, for 10 long and arduous months, a feat that stirred the Holy Roman Empire out of its apathy....

Enjoy!

Germans think their bread is the best in the world. Here’s why they might be right | CNN Germans have more bakeries and eat more varieties of bread than most other countries in the world — no wonder it’s so good.

Germans think their bread is the best in the world. Here’s why they might be right edition.cnn.com/travel/germa... via @cnn.com

If you were a knight in the 14th century and you found yourself at a loose end, you went to Prussia and joined the Lithuanian crusades....

Today we talk about Matthias Corvinus, the legendary renaissance king of Hungary whose library outshone that of the Medici in Florence and whose standing army was one of the greatest – and most expensive - military forces in 15th century Europe.

#hungary #corvinus #ottoman #empire #habsburg

Thanks so much for the endorsement - and get well soon.