Hosted by Bruce Boyce · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 98 episodes
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Discover the fascinating world of Early Modern History in the time it takes to enjoy a cup of coffee. "I Take History With My Coffee" is a history podcast that brings you engaging and accessible history education through captivating historical storytelling. From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, we explore pivotal events, influential figures, and untold stories that shaped our modern world. Whether you're a seasoned history enthusiast or just curious, this podcast makes history come alive with evidence-based insights and compelling narratives that connect the past to our present with a global perspective. Join me, a public historian and educator, and rediscover the relevance of history today! Listen now and rediscover the joy of history.
Bruce Boyce hosts I Take History With My Coffee, a history show with 98 episodes published.
In the summer of 1559, Philip II left the Netherlands for the last time — leaving behind two very different sets of instructions. To the great noblemen William of Orange and Lamoral of Egmont, he promised that nothing wo
On October 25, 1555, the most powerful man in the world entered the great hall of the ducal palace in Brussels, leaning on a cane, his hand resting on the shoulder of a young prince who would one day lead a rebellion aga
Brussels, July 1, 1523. Two young Augustinian monks are led to the stake in the Grand Place. The crowd does not jeer. It weeps. The executions of Hendrik Vos and Jan van Essen were not the beginning of the Reformation in
It's June 1513. A plain outside Novara, northern Italy. Thousands of Swiss infantry are moving — fast, nearly silent — in a dense pike square that no army in Europe has found a reliable way to stop. For forty years, they
Charles V ruled the biggest empire the Western world had seen since Rome — and he was almost never in the Netherlands. He governed his wealthiest, most fractious territory through regents: first his aunt Margaret of Aust
In the summer of 1509, Erasmus crossed the Alps on horseback with an idea taking shape in his mind—a satirical masterpiece that would make him the most renowned writer in Europe. But fame, for Erasmus, was never the goal
He was born illegitimate in a provincial Dutch backwater, a region that produced herring fishermen and transit traders — not intellectuals. He entered a monastery he had not chosen. He served a bishop who never fulfilled
In the fifteenth century, the Burgundian Low Countries became Europe's premier musical center, and no composer embodied this achievement more fully than Guillaume du Fay. From the soaring polyphony of Cambrai Cathedral t
May 6, 1432. Inside a cathedral in Ghent, a crowd gathers to witness something extraordinary—an altarpiece so lifelike that viewers can count individual flowers in a painted meadow and watch blood flow into a golden chal
In November 1530, Margaret of Austria lay dying in Mechelen after twenty-three years as regent of the Habsburg Netherlands. Her final letter to her nephew, Emperor Charles V, urged him above all to preserve peace—a testa
When Mary of Burgundy died in a riding accident in March 1482, she left a four-year-old heir and a succession crisis that would tear apart the richest territories in northern Europe. Her widower, Maximilian of Austria, c
On January 5, 1477, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, died on a frozen battlefield outside Nancy. His death sparked one of the most intense constitutional crises of the fifteenth century. Charles left behind his ninete
When Queen Isabel of Castile died on November 26, 1504, she left behind a unified Spain and a disastrous succession crisis. Over the following thirteen years, a series of unexpected deaths, political conspiracies, and a
On the night of January 1, 1492, Christian soldiers quietly entered Granada's Alhambra palace. By dawn, the banners of Castile and Aragon flew from the towers of Iberia's last Muslim kingdom. Royal heralds announced a gl
The year 1492 is one of the most important in Spanish history. While Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, Jews were forced to flee east, ending over a thousand years of Jewish presence on the Iberian Peninsula. That
In 1480, the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon faced a pivotal moment. Years of civil war, noble violence, and weakening royal authority had left Spain divided and fragile. However, during a single parliamentary session—the
In October 1469, two 17-year-old cousins made a decision that would change European history. Their secret marriage, performed with a possibly forged papal bull and in direct defiance of the King of Castile, sparked a dec
In the 15th century, the Iberian Peninsula stood at a crossroads between medieval fragmentation and modern unity. Four Christian kingdoms—Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Navarre—shared the peninsula with the Muslim emirat
Europe's urban landscape experienced a major change between 1450 and 1650, but this wasn't just about cities growing larger. This episode explores how demographic recovery after the Black Death caused a complex geographi
Imagine waking up not to an alarm clock, but to roosters crowing and church bells ringing across the valley. For most Europeans between 1450 and 1650, life followed rhythms we've nearly forgotten—tracking the sun's natur
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I Take History With My Coffee is hosted by Bruce Boyce. The show is categorised under history (education) and has published 98 episodes.
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