Episode 6.1 - Burgundy Pt 1 - Origins

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Burgundy is a region in eastern France, which had once been an independent Germanic Kingdom. It became a Duchy of France before entering a Golden Age in the 14th and 15th century and turning into something even bigger

6.1 - Burgundy pt 1 - Origins
The Almost Forgotten

Sources

  • Joseph Calmette, The Golden Age of Burgundy

  • Richard Vaughan, Philip the Bold

  • Henri Pirenne, “The formation and constitution of the Burgundian State (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries)”, American Historical Review

  • The New Cambridge Medieval History

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