Great Lakes Experience w/ Tom E. Leonard

Summer of Fire and Blood transports us to the year 1524—Reformation’s dawn and a feudal Germany fractured by a church entwined with noble power, leaving its peasantry seething against deepening social inequities.Lyndal Anne Roper is an Australian historian and academic. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Her research centres on gender and the Reformation, witchcraft, and visual culture. In 2011, she was appointed to the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman and first Australian to hold this position.Summer of Fire and Blood is the first English-language study of the German Peasants’ War in a generation. It is the Winner of McGill University’s 2025 Cundill History Prize.Dr. James Palmitessa is Associate Professor of History, Western Michigan University. He conducts research and regularly presents at conferences in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. He directs graduate students in his main areas of research and also serves on graduate committees of students in medieval and modern European history and medieval studies. He is affiliated with the Global and International Studies Program and a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Medieval Institute.