Ep. 84: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Stupor Mundi - The Art of Hunting with Birds

History of the Germans from the Middle Ages to Reunification

Dirk Hoffmann-Becking

Education, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 551 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This is a whole episode about a book, a book called "De Arte Veneri cum Avibus" the Art of Hunting with Birds. Hunting books are similar to books about fishing, riveting for those who do it, crushingly boring to those who do not. But this book is not about hunting in the same way as the The Old Man and the Sea is about fishing. But this book is not about hunting, it is about nature about the beginnings of science and the awakening of the critical mind. It is about someone who acts and thinks very differently to his contemporaries, the Stupor Mundi. Come and take a look...and listen to me getting into a ramt. There is a website for this episode with transcripts and images available here: Episode 84 - The Art of Hunting with Birds • History of the Germans Podcast 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. As always: Homepage with maps, photos, transcripts and blog: www.historyofthegermans.com Facebook: @HOTGPod Twitter: @germanshistory Instagram: history_of_the_germans Reddit: u/historyofthegermans Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Historyofthegermans

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History of the Germans.
0:08.1	Episode 84, the art of hunting with birds.
0:13.5	In the center of the city of Heidelberg, former capital of the Palatinate, rises the
0:17.6	Highly Geistkirche, the Church of the Holy Spirit built between 1398 and 1515.
0:23.6	Inside the church you will notice some unusual galleries on the upper floor.
0:27.6	This is where the Bibliquica Palatina, the greatest repository of books and manuscripts in Renaissance Germany, was once kept.
0:35.6	Put together by the Counts Palatinate on the Rhine, it contained
0:39.7	5,000 printed books and 3,524 manuscripts. It served as a library of the University of Heidelberg,
0:48.4	then and still today one of the foremost places of learning in the country. In 1622, the Catholic League
0:56.9	sacked the Calvinist Palatinate. Count Tilly, command of the Bavarian troops, seized a library
1:03.2	and was initially ordered to send it to Munich. But the emperor insisted the library was so
1:09.3	valuable and so famous, it was to be sent to the
1:12.3	Pope in Rome as a sign of his loyalty and esteem.
1:17.6	Amongst the books in the Bibliacca Palatina were three of the most famous medieval manuscripts
1:22.5	ever made. The Evangelia of Lorch was made in around 8.10 at the court of Charlemagne.
1:28.3	It was the blueprint for the great art of medieval illuminations that reached its peak under the Otonians,
1:34.3	many of which you may have seen on my social media post these last years.
1:38.3	One half of it ended up in the Vatican Library in Rome, the other half was nicked by the Cardinal in
1:44.3	charge of packing up the books in 1622. That half is today in Alba Yulia in Transylvania.
1:52.6	The second superlative manuscript is the Kordex Manessa, a collection of medieval Minnesang
1:58.1	decorated with colorful depictions of courtly life in the high Middle Ages.
2:01.6	These I have also used extensively on my website and in the description of my Patreon tears.
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