Prof. Lyndal Roper, Emeritus Regius Professor of History, Oriel College, University of Oxford.
We start the programme by looking at one of Europe’s most explosive mass uprisings. In 1525, central Europe erupted as hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against feudal oppression, and brutal retaliation followed. Guiding us through this “summer of fire and blood” is Lyndal Roper, Emeritus Regius Professor of History at Oxford. A world-renowned expert on early modern Germany and the Reformation, Professor Roper will cover the radical ideas, tragic violence, and lasting scars of a revolution that shook Christendom to its core.