The Long Road to Canossa | Medieval Documentary
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Chapters:
0:00 - Road to Canossa
1:43 - Canossa's significance
3:06 - Sponsorship
4:06 - A Tale of Two Conrads
6:24 - Henry IV's grandfather: Conrad II
9:48 - The first step to Canossa: Valvassores' Revolt
10:23 - Conrad II's legacy: Conquest of Burgundy + Speyer Cathedral
12:44 - Henry IV's father: Henry III
15:19 - Rehabilitation of the Papacy
16:45 - The dominoes to Canossa are falling
19:23 - Henry IV: the boy-king
20:13 - Coup of Kaiserswerth (Henry IV's mother is toppled)
21:47 - Henry IV: king of a brave new world
28:13 - Henry IV's policies: hohenburgen & ministeriales
29:04 - First Saxon Revolt
30:01 - Pope Gregory VII: the greatest Gregorian reformer
32:37 - Milan sparks the Investiture Controversy
33:45 - Gregory excommunicates Henry
34:51 - Henry IV: the outcast-king
36:45 - Making sense of the Canossa humiliation ritual
37:22 - The aftermath
40:26 - Gregory's greatest protégé: Pope Urban II
41:32 - End of Henry IV's reign
42:29 - The last Salian: Henry V
42:59 - End of the Investiture Controversy
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Sources & further reading:
1. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire (Peter H. Wilson)
2. The Medieval Empire in Central Europe: Dynastic Continuity in the Post-Carolingian Frankish Realm, 900–1300 (Herbert Schutz)
3. Weinfurter, Stefan (1999) [1992]. The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition. Translated by Kaiser, Denise A.
4. Wolfram, Herwig (2006) [2000]. Conrad II, 990–1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms. Translated by Bowlus, Barbara M.
5. I. S. Robinson, Henry IV of Germany, 1056–1106 (Cambridge, 1999)
6. Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Germ...
7. Wipo of Burgundy: Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris
8. The Annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
9. Account by Hermann of Reichenau
10. Account by Bishop Erlund of Wurzburg
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