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History of the Germans Podcast
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A weekly #podcast covering the History of the Germans from the coronation of Henry the Fowler in 919 to the German Reunification in 1990 with "moderate but not severe biases of the typical contemporary liberal variety"
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He was appointed tutor of the young emperor Otto III who he accompanied on his journeys to Rome and Poland. He was present at the time when Otto III had been besieged by an angry mob in his palace in Rome. (10/
Otto and his companions prepared themselves to die in a last break out. Bernward led the small group holding aloft the Holy Lance. This unexpected move and the respect for the nails of the cross embedded in the lance opened a gap in the crowd through which they could escape. (11/
HO
History of the Germans Podcast
@hotgpod.bsky.social
A weekly #podcast covering the History of the Germans from the coronation of Henry the Fowler in 919 to the German Reunification in 1990 with "moderate but not severe biases of the typical contemporary liberal variety"
223 followers240 following195 posts