The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand…
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You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are trying to take a look at the life of a knight. A look at the life in full, stripped of idealizations and self righteous outrage on behalf of oppressed peasants. Last episode we were looking at medieval life. There were knights and clerics as relatively free parts of society. We know that west of the Hajnal line, the catastrophe of…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are going to start with trivialities, then get into some serious differences between now and the medieval psyche. Around gross stuff, aggression and killing and finally torture, and torture’s enjoyment. This is absolutely not an episode for children. If you hate me by the end I will understand. This is going to explain that western…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It was probably while the brutal siege in Vienna went on, and the little boys and girls of the region were being sold into slavery, after being raped a few times if more modern examples teach us anything. That Erasmus wrote a book l On Civility for Boys . This was a publishing blockbuster, full of useful advice, like- try not to fart so…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. There are two stories here, their opposition is part of a theme. Erasmus, the great Erasmus , Erasmus of Rotterdam was even more a product of the Devotio Moderna than was Luther. Most of his young education was by the Brethren of the Common Life or their imitators. I am Groote. Last episode I called him a Satirist. Of course he was much…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A miner’s son, decided one day, to nail 95 thesis to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in the year of our lord 1517. It seems unlikely he intended to split his church, the Catholic, universal church, into a bewildering multiplicity of new religions and sects. And yet, trained in the Devotio Moderna’s way of taking action and…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We explore the roots of Humanism and the Reformation. Taking a long look at the Devotio Moderna, the Brethren of the Common Life. These were key influences on both Erasmus and Martin Luther. But more than that, the Devotio Moderna were a vital element in the invention of the printing press. We look at Gerhard Groote the founder of the…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This episode is just a little introduction to the theories of the causes of the industrial revolution as of right now. We look at the Sheilagh Ogilvie classification of 5 general theories of the Causes of the Industrial Revolution and Michael Magoon's list of causes. Of course, Harald has a few pet theories of his own by now. His third…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Consider the British Empire in 1792, the year of Macartney’s expedition to China and the year young Emperor Francis began to look askance at the French Revolution and all the ruling factions within it started to wish for a war. Well at that time the empire was rather modest, a few spice islands, Canada, Gibraltar, New South Wales had…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. More focus on Mexico and California than is ideal, but there is a general overview of Spanish America. Spanish America, more than anywhere else, shows us the global ramifications of the Napoleonic Wars. “The crisis and collapse of Spain’s empire was the direct result of political turmoil in Europe. During the Napoleonic wars this vast…
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The challenges to recruiting enough men for service in the Royal Navy and the Army and Militia were formidable. It is revealed that the War of 1812 was really one war too many for Britain. The necessity to supply seamen for the new North American Lake service meant that the Royal Navy did not have enough men to staff the newly produced…