Team

Louisa Bergold is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. She is writing her doctoral thesis on the perception and popularity of Lucretia in sixteenth-century Germany, supervised by Professor Lyndal Roper. She has written her master’s dissertation on Lucretia and the Cranach workshop. Her interest in the Peasants’ War is connected to her enthusiasm for digital humanities. In addition to her research on the early modern period, she has worked on the commemoration of the Third Reich.

Charlotte Gauthier is an historian at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research explores the political, diplomatic, and intellectual history of late medieval/early modern religious conflict, with a particular emphasis on conflict and cooperation between Europe and the Ottoman Empire and the effects of the Reformation on European diplomacy. She also maintains an active research interest in digital humanities and public history, collaborating with other academics on ambitious public-facing digital research projects and working with heritage organisations to create public engagement programmes and use data to diversify their audiences.

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Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford and is the first woman to hold the post. She became interested in the Peasants’ War when writing a biography of the reformer Martin Luther, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Bodley Head, 2016) / Der Mensch Martin Luther (Fischer, 2016). She has recently published a history of the Peasants’ War: Für die Freiheit (Fischer, 2024) / Summer of Fire and Blood (Basic Books, 2025). She has also written on the history of witchcraft, and on sexuality and gender in the Reformation in Germany.

Edmund Wareham Wanitzek is a lecturer in Early Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His interest in the Peasants’ War was first piqued during his doctorate, a microhistorical study of the Cistercian convent of Günterstal, near Freiburg im Breisgau, which in 1525, like so many other monastic houses, was plundered. He has published an article exploring the effects of the revolt on Cistercian houses and has recently completed the manuscript of his first monograph, Walled Women: German Nuns as World-Makers in an Age of Reform and Revolt. The picture on the left shows him outside the Benedictine convent of Münchenlohra, which was partially destroyed during the Peasants’ War and whose nuns were forced to flee.