Chronica Boemorum Ep. 14 - Precipitousness Uttermost
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It is a period of great changes, with Middle Ages giving way to the Modern Era. While explorers are establishing new maritime trade routes, the Czechs are struggling to combine their heritage of religious liberty with international acceptance.
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Holiday Wishes and Episode 14 update
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Dear listeners,
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Chronica Beomorum Ep. 13 - To The End of the World
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The Hussite Wars are over. Peace and freedom of confession were bought at the cost of a fratricidal battle, but both are still fragile as the king-emperor Zikmund died shortly after the Compacts of Basel were declared.
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Episode 13 delayed
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Due to unfortunate technical difficulties, we have been unable to record episode 13 as planned. We hope to resolve these soon and have the episode for you next week.
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Chronica Boemorum Ep. 12 - Against All
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It is 1422. Thrice now the Czechs have beaten a Crusade called to subjugate them under the yoke of Zikmund of Luxemburg and the papacy he controls.
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Chronica Boemorum Ep. 11 - Warriors of God
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Václav IV., Czech and Roman King, is dead. His heir is his half-brother, Zikmund, King of Hungary and Croatia; but many of the Czech nobles blame him for having Master Jan Hus, the unifying figure of the reform movement, killed in the process.
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Chronica Boemorum Ep. 10 - Seek the Truth and Defend the Truth
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Golden Age of Czech Kingdom is at an end.
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Chronica Boemorum Ep. 9 - Pater Patriae
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Every motherland needs its father - and in 14th century the Czech lands are about to get one of their very own.
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Chronica Boemorum Ep. 8 - God Forbid
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A seven-year-old king without a proper regent sounds like a recipe for disaster. In the Czech kingdom such young man - Václav II. - grows up into an accomplished ruler.
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Chronica Boemorum Ep. 7 - The King of Iron and Gold
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When the first hereditary Czech king dies, the reigns of the realm are taken by his son.
info_outlineWith Moravia trampled under the hooves of the Magyar steppe warriors and Frankish Empire struggling to pull itself together after yet another succession dispute, the time has come for up until then insignificant tribe settled in the middle of the Bohemian Basin to take the reins of the fate of the Czech lands.
From the legendary beginnings through the first historical records, we follow the rise of the Czech tribe and their ruling Přemyslid dynasty of princes on their quest to unite the neighboring tribes and form a successor state to the late Great Moravia.
We talk about prince Bořivoj, who was the first to accept baptism and bring Christianity to be the universal religion of his land and his wife Ludmila, who became the first Slavic woman to achieve sainthood; their grandsons (Saint) Václav, whose reputation of piety and wisdom would long outlive him, and Boleslav the Cruel, who ascended the throne through murder, only to repent and start a wave of reforms which would become the cornerstone of the first true Czech state. We also follow the foundation of the first Czech bishopric and the fate of its second bishop Vojtěch.
Over the course of the episode we mention the first four patron saints of the Czech lands - Vitus, Ludmila, Václav and Vojtěch, and finally we find out, what the Czechs sing instead of the English carol "Good King Wenceslaus" and why.