EARLY EPISODE: The M眉nster Rebellion: Part 1
What starts as a rational critique of the Reformation turns into a wild, sex crazed, blood thirsty, and heavily armed cult ruled by a man who thinks he can cure blindness by spitting in someone's eye while mass executions take place via comically oversized anime sword.
The Anabaptists of Munster eventually turn everyone against them from Martin Luther to the Catholics to their own believers who simply like their wives.
Content Warning: Everything, throughout the series.
Part 1/3
Sources:
Anthony Arthur. The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster
Peter Vansittart. The Siege.
Paul Ham. New Jerusalem: The short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect
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Comments (43)
The whole thing with the Latin Bible is especially weird since the Bible wasn't written in Latin...
Doing a pedicure with a belt sander? Naw, just go to the local farrier or hoof trimmer
". . . Rock band that turned everyone Muslim." So Taqwacore? Go it.
This is hilarious. I just relistened to the hardcore History episode about this exact same incident. Be fun to compare the two treatments.
Listening to this whole thing on my way to therapy and back (we're normally telehealth for a reason),
Art thou any crossover Jet Lag The Game fans who had their ears perked up when they heard Emden mentioned?
Awesome so my heritage has managed to start a fanatical Christian sect and then went on to write Hitlers theme song...what a rich heritage
Read the description without seeing the umlaut in M眉nster, thought it meant the Irish province, and thought 'ah, so that's what was up with those guys who worked for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.'
Syphilitic Horses sounds like a crust punk band that covers Paula Cole songs.
3 episodes at once? I know what I'm doing for the next 4 or so hours
NATE HAS HUGUENOT ANCESTRY? Acadian cousin?
I鈥檓 so hype for this series!
Some fun facts: - Luther was born with the last name "Luder", which still translates to slut - a "M眉nzer" is someone wo mints coins - the sword attributed to M眉nzer (which was made from a scythe) is displayed in M眉hlhausen in Thuringia (yes, there are several M眉hlhausens - it just translates to mill housing) - there is M眉nster (where the Anabaptists were) and Munster, where the German tank museum is situated...
Oh god I listened to the Hardcore history episode of this saga...
I work as an election member during elections here in the Netherlands. And yes there are still quite a lot of Melchiors around. Mostly as a second name though
Woah I think this is the first time in three whole podcasts I knew something Nate didnt
Re Christian Communism: worth remembering that this happened no fewer than thrice with the Monastic movement, & then the Franciscans & then the Spiritual Franciscans
On indulgences: they spare one from purgatory, not hell. Except maybe the crusading... but yeah hell is not avoidable, just the pain of purification
I can't believe they made Christian Theocracy Maoists
Shouting, "You just need to read the Theory" at the cowering peasant as I cut off his neighbor's head for the crime of suggesting Muslims might deserve rights.
Loving the FF7 and FFT chat
Might get covered later but is there any reason why the guilds swung anabaptist? Was it a power grab or is there something about anabaptism that spoke to the guilds
I want to see a battle between the Bolsheviks and the Anabaptist. How long would it take before either side realize that Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man.
Anabaptists made for some kickass food in south central PA
Sie haben die richtigen Umlaute verwendet, die Folge kann nur gut werden
ROFL at "no one has introduced a heating rock to the dutch yet..."
Welcome back white Hong Christ
New logo is cute
As a tanker, Joe knows APDS stands for Armor Piercing Discarding Skynyrd
I think Dan Carlin did a deep dive on this, a handful of years back.
Prophets of Doom, IMO his best work
Oh I'm excited for this one. This is one of my favorite Hardcore History episodes.
Oh god
Anabaptism is not to be confused with Anamanabaptism, which is chiptune catholoicism.
Anarchobaptism, or anbap
As a not very serious Christmas and Easter Catholic, my whole thing is like if there isn't gold and statues of saints etc, what's the point??
I hate that the Catholic Church hoarded people's money, but you can't deny that they had an AESTHETIC.
Babe, wake up! New series with Nate just dropped!
There is a two part show for German TV from 1993. Jan van Leiden was played by Christopher Waltz.
Sanest German religious movement
You might want to add the umlaut: I thought you were talking about Ireland for a second
Hell yeah!
Yeah baby starting monday with mindless bloodshed makes *my* week feel better!