• Ep. 4 - A Foe Wherever You Go - King Otto I settles into being a medieval ruler

  • Apr 14 2024
  • Length: 24 mins
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Ep. 4 - A Foe Wherever You Go - King Otto I settles into being a medieval ruler

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  • After the civil war with his brother Henry Otto gets to reorganise the kingdom and focuses on foreign policy. There is conflict on all borders, with the Slavs, the Bohemians, the Hungarians, and the French. Great opportunities for the fine sports of pointless sieges, burning of crops as well massacring peasants. But what do you say to a magnate who offers to swallow seven Saxon lances in one go?

    The most interesting story plays out in Italy where we find a beautiful young heiress with the key to a kingdom languishing in a jail....

    The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau under Common Creative Licence 3.0.

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