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Excerpt from a 16th century print created for Georg Agricola’s book “De Re Metallica”, showing prospecting work. One man is dowsing, while several others dig pits with pick-axes and examine the excavated earth and stone. Image shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.
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Interview

Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König

Bad pennies and revolting peasants

a monetary examination of the Peasants' War

2 April 2024

(0:19 h)

Excerpt from a 16th century print created for Georg Agricola’s book “De Re Metallica”, showing prospecting work. One man is dowsing, while several others dig pits with pick-axes and examine the excavated earth and stone. Image shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König

Bad pennies and revolting peasants
a monetary examination of the Peasants' War

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’.

Don’t miss his accompanying GHIL Lecture on “Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins: Towards a “Monetary Turn” in Explaining the Revolution of 1525”.

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