047: Salians II: Henry IV and the Walk to Canossa

History of Germany Podcast

Jan 1, 201858:19Society & Culture

One of the highest points of the investiture controversy was marked with the wearing of a hair shirt on a walk to Canossa by an emperor who was to be excommunicated 3 times. The 2nd part of the Salian Dynasty miniseries...

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