History of the Germans
A podcast by Dirk Hoffmann-Becking - Thursdays
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171 Episodes
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Empires of the Normans with Dr. Levi Roach
Published: 6/30/2022 -
Ep. 65 - The Third Crusade
Published: 6/23/2022 -
Ep. 64 - The Heirs of Troy - What is an Emperor for?
Published: 6/16/2022 -
Ep. 63 - Recovery - Barbarossa rebuilds his reign after defeats in Italy and at home
Published: 6/9/2022 -
Ep. 62 - The Fall of Henry the Lion
Published: 6/2/2022 -
Ep. 61 - The Peace of Venice - The Reconciliation between Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III
Published: 5/26/2022 -
Ep. 60 - Legnano - Barbarossa's final Battle in Italy
Published: 5/19/2022 -
Ep. 59 - The City of Straw - Barbarossa's failed siege of Alessandria
Published: 5/12/2022 -
Ep. 58 - The Lombard League
Published: 5/5/2022 -
Ep. 57 - The Hand of God - The siege of Rome in 1167 that changes everything
Published: 4/28/2022 -
Ep. 56 - The Siege of Crema - and then Barbarossa razes Milan to the ground
Published: 4/21/2022 -
Ep. 55 - The Laws of Roncaglia - Barbarossa brings back Roman Law
Published: 4/14/2022 -
Ep. 54 - A Bohemian Bluff - Barbarossa conquers Milan for the first time
Published: 4/7/2022 -
Ep. 53 - Sacrum Imperium - The moment when the Empire becomes Holy and Roman
Published: 3/31/2022 -
Ep. 52 - The Honour of the Empire - Bringing the broken Empire back together
Published: 3/24/2022 -
Ep. 51 - The Barbarossa - Who was the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa?
Published: 3/17/2022 -
Ep. 50 - Barbarossa Begins - A Stolen Election?
Published: 3/10/2022 -
Ep. 49 - Konrad's Catastrophe - The Disaster that is the Second Crusade
Published: 3/3/2022 -
Ep. 48 - Konrad's Conundrum - Imperial Coronation or Crusade?
Published: 2/24/2022 -
Ep. 47 - Konrad's Coup - The Hohenstaufen Konrad III snatches the crown from the Welf
Published: 2/17/2022
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". HotGPod is now entering its 8th season. 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) Eastern Expansion (#95-108) The Hanseatic League (#109-127) The Teutonic Knights (#128-137) The Interregnum and the early Habsburgs (#138 ff - 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-