Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

The Millennium in the Sixteenth Century (1x12)

Air date: Jan 01, 2002

The outburst of millenarian expectations in the wake of the Reformation, and the great social and religious upheavals caused by peasant uprisings in early 16th-century Germany. This lecture places these rebellions, and their expectations of a godly kingdom, in the context of religious reform, political antagonism, and cultural change.