Worms is today a small city of 85,000 people, but in the 15th century it was one of the most significant trading hubs on the Rhine River and site of several important imperial assemblies (1/3):
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In 1125 the Concordat of Worms put an end to the Investiture Controversy (though not the the conflict between pope and emperor), in 1495 emperor Maximilian enacted his Reichsreform at teh diet of Worms and in 1521 a certain M. Luther decalared: "here I stand and I can do no other". (2/3)
In the latest episode of HotGPod, we take a trip upriver on the Rhine and Neckar from Mainz to Heidelberg, digging deeper in the political, economic and cultural life of this region at the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period: https://historyofthegermans.com/2025/04/10/palatinate
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