Villains and Virgins History Podcast

Eva Schubert
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Villains and Virgins History Podcast

A history podcast with a focus on violence, religion, and gripping stories, created by Eva Schubert, history nerd, college instructor, and jazz aficionado.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    The Peasant' War Part 2: Bloodbath

    The Peasants' War was the largest peasant uprising prior to the French Revolution.  Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people organise a labour strike and dare to demand a measure of fairness.  They use the ideas of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation to do it.  Luther wants nothing to do with the rebels, and supports the German nobles in killing these "mad dogs".  The heavy cavalry and the landsknecht armies of the Swabian League are on the march, and this rebellion is about to turn into a war.

    1h 13m

  2. 26/12/2024

    The Peasants' War Part 1: Before the Bloodbath

    This is the story of the biggest peasant uprising prior to the French Revolution. Inspired by the writing of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, it was a shocking challenge to the social order. Serfs occupied castles, executed nobles, and plundered monasteries.  Events that lasted less than a year would result in thousands of peasant deaths, and change the direction of the Reformation itself.  This episode is the first in a two part series. You can support this podcast on Patreon at: patreon.com/evaschubert The video version of this episode is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4UK4CtYihQc

    1h 28m

  3. 26/08/2024

    The Reformation Episode 5: Wars of Religion

    The Wars of Religion are the bloody outcome of the religious fracturing of Europe.  They reshaped political identity and redefined the balance of power among countries.  But what actually happened and why does it matter?  This episode is a wild ride through three different countries, as scheming French cardinals send funds to Protestant rebels abroad, and the king of Spain institutes bloody punishments for religious deviance in the Netherlands.  Cities under siege and a terrifying "red wedding" are part of the story.  From Hugenots to Anabaptists, Calvinists, and Lutherans, this episode will answer questions you didn't know you had.

    1h 43m

  4. 02/07/2024

    The Reformation: EP 4- England Kills a King

    In this episode we watch England execute a king.  This is the strange tale of how England became a Protestant country, and why the Church of England is the way it is.  Along the way we watch militant Scottish Reformers challenge the power of the monarch, and uncover the roots of the Covenanters and Presbyterian churches.  The episode culminates in the English Civil War, as competing versions of church and state vie for the future of the nation.  Monarchy in Europe will never be the same again!

    1h 25m

  5. 18/01/2024

    The Reformation Episode 3: John Calvin and Theocracy

    John Calvin is one of the major figures of the Protestant Reformation, famous for his doctrine of pre-destination.  This episode covers his time in Geneva, and how he turned that city into a grim and terrifying experiment in theocracy.  It is also the story of Protestants burning a heretic at the stake, in a bizarre moment of borrowing the very punishments that had been used to suppress them.  This episode captures a dramatic moment as reformers struggle to redefine the roles of church and state.

    1h 7m

  6. 25/10/2023

    Reformation Episode 2: Martin Luther, The Man Who Split Europe

    In this episode we cover the unlikely journey of one young man from earnest Augustinian monk to rebel reformer.  Martin Luther ignited a firestorm of existing anti-clerical sentiment across Europe, with results that would change Europe and the Western Christian Church forever.

    1h 40m

  7. 10/07/2023

    The Reformation Episode 1: John Wycliffe and the Middle Ages

    What is the Protestant Reformation and why does it matter?  To begin to understand how thoroughly it has shaped Western Europe and North America we must travel back in time to see the world as it was before the Reformation.  This episode is all about the Middle Ages, when an emperor braved the Alps in winter to appeal to a Pope, and thousands of people in Southern France were slaughtered by Crusaders.  It is a world of towering cathedrals, in which the power of the Church rivaled that of the Crown.  In this medieval world a poor boy from Yorkshire earned a doctoral degree at Oxford University, and began developing ideas that would shake this world to its foundations.  His name was John Wycliffe.

    1h 27m

  8. 11/01/2023

    Ferdinand and Isabella: EP 5- Christopher Columbus and 1492

    1492 was a year that changed everything.  In Castile, it was the end of the Reconquista, as Isabella and Ferdinand ended a decade long war with a triumphant ride through the streets of Granada.  It was also the year they signed the Alhambra Decree, which banished all Jews from Castile, and it was the beginning of the end of Moorish presence as well.  The connection between these two events and the Spanish Inquisition was a drive for religious purity that would forever change the history of Spain.  This is also the year that Christopher Columbus obtained royal support for his expedition, opening the door to Spain's colonial empire in the New World.

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A history podcast with a focus on violence, religion, and gripping stories, created by Eva Schubert, history nerd, college instructor, and jazz aficionado.

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