September 2025
Lyndal Roper – The German Peasants’ War 1525
For many years, historians dismissed the German Peasants’ War of 1525 as a brief sideshow of the early Reformation. Following Friedrich Engels, Marxist historians in the German Democratic Republic later assigned exaggerated importance to the war for political purposes. Having researched all available archives, Professor LYNDAL ROPER reveals the true significance of these dramatic events and their protagonists. Although this extraordinary uprising was ultimately defeated, it demonstrated the political intelligence of a neglected class which took Martin Luther’s revolutionary teachings …
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Mehr erfahren »Natasha Wheatley – Central Europe and The Birth of Modern Sovereignty
In her keynote lecture, American historian NATASHA WHEATLEY will elaborate on the main insights from her widely acclaimed book The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty. This profound exploration of how the Habsburg Empire’s complex legal and political landscape influenced modern concepts of statehood and sovereignty shows how the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire created a precedent for newly formed states to claim legitimacy based on historical sovereignty. Wheatley traces how these legal …
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