Series 11: Staufer Revival (1125 - 1250 AD)

In this series, we discuss how the Holy Roman Empire will change in the long term from its warrior foundings, to a transpersonal and permanent institution of Inner Europe. This process would be personified by the Staufer dynasty, who would work to pick up the fragments of the investiture struggle and rebuild a new society.New episodes every Thursday!Have a question or comment? Contact me at [email protected]: Zachary Wheeler and Nathaniel Scarborough, "Hej, Sokoły" folk tuneOutro: Antonín Dvořák, Serenade for Strings, Op. 22 (London Symphony Orchestra 1960)Wilson, Peter H. Heart of Europe. Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University, 2020.Berend, Nora. Urbanczyk, Przemyslaw. Wiszewski, Przemyslaw. Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland, C.900-C.1300. Cambridge University Press, 2014.Obolensky, Dimitri. The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453. Praeger Publishers, 1971.Christiansen, Eric. The Northern Crusades: Second Edition. Penguin Books, 1998.Haverkamp, Alfred. Medieval Germany 1056-1273. Oxford University Press, 1988.