Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
23. Drown the Anabaptists!; Reformation in Germany Part 2: Revolting Peasants
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 23
Reformation in Germany Part 2. The bloody parts. We start with the example of astrology as a belief of educated people in the 16th century and wonder what equally stupid things we believe today. This leads to extended coverage of the Peasant’s Revolt, the largest until Bolshevik times. The Reformation begins to spread but is limited by reaction to the Peasant’s Revolt. Then we move on to the Anabaptist attempt to create a paradise in Munster. Their failure is widely misunderstood as a religious failure, but the reaction to it across Europe and the continent has consequences we still feel today.
Aunt Green episode, with Muggles.