Burgundy: Europe's forgotten superpower (TRIH ep 131)
1415 · Resource
This episode is an extended interview with Bart van Loo about the Dukes of Burgundy and the rise and fall of the Burgundian polity in the late medieval Low Countries. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss how Burgundian state‑building stitched together wealthy Flemish towns and territories between France and the Holy Roman Empire, creating a glittering court culture of feasts, tournaments and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Bart traces the dynasty from Philip the Bold through Jo...
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Around 1415
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)
- Forbidden City built (1406)