Episode 16 – Rex Tyrannus

The History of Denmark by Søren Krarup

Jul 6, 2016Education

We reach the transitory period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. King Hans fights pole-vaulting German peasants and his son, Christian II, becomes known as “Tyrant Christian”.  

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