Lecture 3: Space and Movement
Contemporaries almost universally referred to the War as the ‘Aufruhr’, the turbulence. In his infamous condemnation of the Peasants, Luther used the word six times in the key paragraph. Aufruhr must be punished, and those involved ‘slain like mad dogs’. This lecture draws on ideas from fluid mechanics to understand why contemporaries experienced the war as ‘turbulence’, exploring where, when and how peasants moved and formed bands. It concludes with a discussion of Dürer’s Dream of 1525.
Date: 3 March 2021, 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2021)
Venue: Online with Zoom
Speaker: Professor Lyndal Roper (Oriel College, Oxford)
Part of: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures 2020/21: Lyndal Roper on the German Peasants' War
Booking required?: Required
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Audience: Public
Editor: Laura Spence