The Peasants’ War

Fælles seminar AKH og EuQu

With lectures by:

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Kaufmann, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The Peasants' War - a media event
The Peasants' War of 1525 was without doubt one of the most outstanding and controversial events of the Reformation. The lecture attempts to clarify what the Peasants' War has to do with the Reformation and to what extent the printed media played a central role in mobilising the uprisings, but also in transforming the conflicts. In essence, it is also about the question of how far the Peasants' War as a media event touched on the social and cultural reality of the peasants.

Prof. Dr. Christopher Ocker, Australian Catholic University
After the War
The Peasants’ War of 1525 was the largest popular uprising known to Europe before the modern period. We know a lot about this war. Its rise, spread, organization, participants, tactics, and political limitations have all been exhaustively studied. But what did it accomplish? The war was famously judged a failure by Friedrich Engels and by many since. Only recently, though, have historians focused their attention on the aftermath of the war. This lecture will reassess the complex social and political forces unleashed by the revolt, the impact of the revolt on the lives of individuals directly affected by it, and the impact it had on the Reformations of the sixteenth century.

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