How One Family Made the Dark Ages Less "Dark"

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This is the story of the Ottonians, the descendants of Otto the Great, who steered Germany and Italy through the dawn of a new millennium.

Chapters:
0:00 - Darkness of the womb
2:30 - A Byzantine princess
7:15 - Germanosphere's first female poet, playwright & historian
8:09 - Arrival of the fork, cult of Saint Nicholas, etc.
9:40 - Harald Bluetooth strikes
10:24 - Sponsor segment: Aura
11:35 - Origins of Austria (Marcha Orientalis)
12:31 - Origins of France (rise of Hugh Capet)
14:27 - How Otto II got his nickname: "the red"
16:54 - Greatest crisis of the Ottonian dynasty
19:20 - Regency of the first & only co-empress
21:01 - The only popular revolt of the 10th century
21:58 - Legacy of the Byzantine co-empress
23:03 - Legacy of the saintly empress
23:46 - Otto III, 'wonder of the world'
24:39 - Bernward, 'summary of the culture of his age'
25:39 - The first German pope
28:10 - The mutilated antipope
28:54 - Rome: capital of the Holy Roman Empire
29:40 - Gerbert d'Aurillac: the scholar pope
30:20 - Introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals, decimals, etc.
31:08: Dawn of a new millennium (1000 AD)
31:47 - Origins of Hungary (King Stephen)
32:22 - Ghost of Charlemagne
33:26 - Personal legacy of Otto III
35:02 - Henry II: the saintly emperor
35:36 - Cathedral schools
36:51 - Bad Latin
37:28 - Reichskirchensystem: royal investiture
39:14 - Origins of Poland & Bohemia
40:00 - Medieval trademark infringement
40:47 - Written administration of the Ottonians
41:30 - Twilight years of the Ottonian dynasty
42:05 - Personal legacy of Saint Henry the Exuberant
43:11 - The holy, Roman & imperial legacy of the Ottonians

Sources & further reading:
- Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire (Peter H. Wilson)
- Otto III (Gerd Althoff)
- Death and Life in the Tenth Century (Eleanor Duckett)
- Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453 (Bernard S. Bachrach, David S. Bachrach)
- Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany (David S. Bachrach)
- Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800-1056 (Timothy Reuter)
- "Kaiserin Theophano: The political, economic and cultural deeds of a Byzantine princess who became empress of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" (Emmanouel Economou)
- The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (translated by Paolo Squatriti)
- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances (Brown, McMillin, Wilson)
- A 10th-century Monk in the Caliph's Court (Nancy Marie Brown)
- The Abacus and the Cross (Nancy Marie Brown)
- Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries (Eltjo Buringh & Jan Luiten Van Zanden)
- Age of Faith (Will Durant)
- The Wandering Scholars (Helen Waddell)

Music:
Crusader Kings III - Dusking Sky Pts. 1-2
Crusader Kings III - Fate of Iberia
Crusader Kings III - The Banquet
Crusader Kings III - In Taberna Revisited
Crusader Kings III - The Byzantine Empire
Crusader Kings III - Legacy of Persia
Crusader Kings III - Veni Vidi Vici
Witcher 3 - Aen Seidhe
Witcher 3 - Ladies of the Woods
Harpa Dei: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Harpa Dei: Salve Regina
Deskant - ES Fairy's Fear
Ottone HWV 15, Act 1

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