376 Episodes

  1. The Italian Wars, Part 1

    Published: 7/4/2019
  2. Minisode: Military Revolutions

    Published: 6/27/2019
  3. Why Bother with the Seventeenth Century? An Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers

    Published: 6/20/2019
  4. Condottieri: War for Profit in Renaissance Italy

    Published: 6/13/2019
  5. Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy

    Published: 6/6/2019
  6. Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence

    Published: 5/30/2019
  7. Minisode: Banking

    Published: 5/23/2019
  8. Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?

    Published: 5/16/2019
  9. The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank

    Published: 5/9/2019
  10. The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Stanford's Professor Richard White

    Published: 5/2/2019
  11. Minisode: Messianic Rulers and Military Revolutions in Spain

    Published: 4/25/2019
  12. The Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, and the Rise of Spain

    Published: 4/18/2019
  13. Queen Isabella of Spain and the End of the Reconquista

    Published: 4/11/2019
  14. Historical Fiction and the Wars of the Roses: An Interview with Philippa Gregory

    Published: 4/4/2019
  15. 1492: A Guided Tour of Europe on the Brink

    Published: 3/21/2019
  16. Who Was Christopher Columbus? With Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

    Published: 3/14/2019
  17. Civil Servants, State Finance, and the Rising State

    Published: 3/7/2019
  18. The Troubled Inheritance of Mary of Burgundy and Dynastic Consolidation

    Published: 2/21/2019
  19. The Rise and Fall of Burgundy

    Published: 2/14/2019
  20. Game of Thrones and Late Medieval Politics

    Published: 2/7/2019

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