Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Show 48 - Prophets of Doom

February 16, 2015 5:47 PM

Murderous millennial preachers and prophets take over the German city of Munster after Martin Luther unleashes a Pandora's Box of religious anarchy with the Protestant Reformation.

This episode covers the Munster Rebellion and the Anabaptist Commune. The cages for apocalyptic leaders Bernhard Krechting, Bernhard Knipperdolling, and Jan van Leiden are still on the famous cathedral.

posted by the man of twists and turns (2 comments total)

Probably my favorite Hardcore History episode. Just so much insanity so removed from our modern mental framework that it could be nearly impossible to even comprehend it, but it works.
posted by Navelgazer at 9:47 PM on February 16, 2015

Someone linked to this episode recently here on MeFi and I downloaded it but can't find the thread I got it from.

All the torturing people to death makes him think of the Waco siege, rather than lynchings where people were actually tortured to death in public or something like Emmett Till being murdered and his eyes cut out? I think he really over-does it with the insistence that the events he's describing are alien and beyond the comprehension of "we moderns".
posted by XMLicious at 2:32 AM on June 22, 2017