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Scott here with another episode of the History on Plug podcast.

The German Peasants War of 1524 to 1525 was the largest popular uprising in Western Europe

before the French Revolution. Somewhere between 70 and 100,000 peasants, about 2% of the male

population, were killed in two months. When the peasant forces would ultimately prove no match

for the wards and their armored cavalry, for a period of several months, they managed to take

control the vast areas of southern and middle Germany in an attempt to abolish serfdom. The reason

these serfs fought is because they took the ideas of the reformation, of liberty, and applied them

not just to the Christian Church, but the

entire European social order. Far beyond what Luther would have ever imagined and what he later

condemned. To look at this mass uprising, we're joined by today's guest, Lyndall Roper, author of

Summer of Fire and Blood, the German Peasants' War. We see that neither the Reformation or the

Peasants' War can fully be understood in isolation

from one another, and that the rebels' fight for freedom was a direct response to the period

of religious upheaval in which it took place. We also see how they took advantage of the printing

press and circulated 25,000 copies of their demands, and how information was truly being

democratized and the effects of this had. Hope we enjoyed this

discussion. And one more thing before we get started with this episode, a quick break for a word

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