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genggeeess2[Download PDF] Einfuhrung in Die Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Band 4: Fruhe Neuzeit (Einfuhrung in Die Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 4) (German Edition) – Philipp R. Rossner Full2025-07-2500 min
German Historical Institute London PodcastPhilipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König: Bad pennies and revolting peasants:Money doesn’t stink – or so the famous phrase goes. So, what did peasants in the Middle Ages mean when they complained about bad coin? Can a focus on monetary issues shed new light on the Peasants' War?
In this GHIL Podcast interview, Research Fellow for Medieval History Marcus Meer and PR Officer Kim König are joined by Philipp Rössner, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, to talk about the research behind his lecture on ‘Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins: Towards a “Monetary Turn” in Explaining the Revolution of 1525’.2024-04-0219 min
German Historical Institute London PodcastPhilipp Rössner: Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins:The ‘Great German Peasant War’ of 1524–6 has quietly slipped off the historian’s agenda. Structural-materialist interpretations have waned since the fall of the Iron Curtain, giving rise to several ‘cultural’ and other ‘turns’, most of which have also passed. One phenomenon, however, has been missed completely, in older as well as more recent historiography: the monetary problem. Monetary issues—relating to currency and how different coins were used to pay fines, dues, and tithes—featured in most known medieval peasant grievances up to the Peasant War proper, significantly contributing to the peasants’ economic cause for revolt. This paper suggests how a ‘monetary turn’ may s...2024-04-0241 min