139: Henry IV Wants More Than Some Kingdoms

Fortune's Wheel: A Podcast History of the Late Middle Ages

This is an addendum episode. I realized that in the course of narrating some pretty exciting and fast-paced events in 1081, I regretfully felt that there were a few crucial explanations I failed to fully explain. These are very important to understand the entire context, and I felt it necessary to fill in the gaps before moving forward. But this is the process of understanding history, isn’t it? If you get something wrong or fail to include something, it’s better to take the time and fix the oversight rather than ignore it. Thanks for understanding, everyone. Studying history isn’t as linear and simple as those textbooks make it out to be, is it?

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