{"podcast":{"title":"Between the Seas: A Central European History","slug":"between-the-seas-a-central-european-history-7091571","podcast_index_feed_id":7091571,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/between-the-seas-history-of-central-europe/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/between-the-seas-history-of-central-europe","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/between-the-seas-history-of-central-europe/20241111_041113_8cb4611f01054ac4c9a0c1a126b54ffc.png","author":"Jacob Wheeler","episode_count":47,"summary":"Follow a narrative history of the vast lands of Central Europe through new episodes every Monday. Here, we learn the traditions of the many rich cultures of the region, and follow them through their political highs and lows. In the show, we'll tell a history of modern day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland from the Early Medieval Period to the Modern Day. Have questions or comments? Contact me at betweentheseas@zohomail.com","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/between-the-seas-a-central-european-history-7091571"},"episode":{"title":"Great Moravia","slug":"great-moravia","published_at":"2025-03-31T11:01:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/between-the-seas-a-central-european-history-7091571/great-moravia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/between-the-seas-a-central-european-history-7091571","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/between-the-seas-history-of-central-europe/1964898","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/300185/1964898/between-the-seas-history-of-central-europe/2025_03_30_23_01_03_3e040ef7-f335-48e4-9ee1-4a4d5861b9d1.mp3","summary":"In this episode, we introduce the Rise and Fall of Great Moravia, a 9th century Slavic \"Imperial Confederacy\" which would attempt to unify several of the frontier slavic tribes of Pannonia and the Carpathians into an organization set against both the East Franks and the Bulgarians. Unlike previous confederacies, this one would be organized also around Christianity, which the missions of Cyril and Methodius would help to spread and make unique for Moravia. New episodes every Monday! Have a question or comment? Contact me at BetweentheSeas@zohomail.com Sources Intro: Zachary Wheeler and Nathaniel Scarborough, \" Hej, Sokoły\" folk tune Outro: Antonín Dvořák, Serenade for Strings, Op. 22 (London Symphony Orchestra 1960) Rady, Martyn. The Middle Kingdoms. Basic Books, 2023. Fine, John VA Jr. The Early Medieval Balkans. University of Michigan Press, 1991. Obolensky, Dimitri. The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453. Praeger Publishers, 1971. Berend, Nora. Urbanczyk, Przemyslaw. Wiszewski, Przemyslaw. Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland, C.900-C.1300. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Hlavica, Michal. Prochazka, Rudolf. Basic Principles of the Great Moravian Economy . Great Moravian Elites from Mikulcice, 2020. Schwerpunkt. Great Moravia (833-907) . Youtube, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HAXnTHjw5Q","meta_description":"In this episode, we introduce the Rise and Fall of Great Moravia, a 9th century Slavic \"Imperial Confederacy\" which would attempt to unify several of the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2764,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/between-the-seas-a-central-european-history-7091571/episodes/great-moravia/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/between-the-seas-a-central-european-history-7091571/great-moravia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}