Lecture 2: Band of Brothers
The watchword of the Peasants’ War was ‘brotherly love’. Oaths of loyalty, which only men could swear, held the movement together; and peasant activists roamed the land calling on villages to join the ‘brotherhood’. But could women be brothers? Was the peasants’ fraternal egalitarianism a male language, and what role did manhood play in the movement’s ideals and values?
Date: 2 March 2021, 17:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2021)
Venue: Online with Zoom
Speaker: Professor Lyndal Roper (Oriel College, Oxford)
Part of: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures 2020/21: Lyndal Roper on the German Peasants' War
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Editor: Laura Spence