Ryan Hampton

Research Topic

Taverns, Drinking, and the Organisation of Resistance in the German Peasants' War (1524-26) and the Revolt of the Comuneros (1520-21)

Supervisor: Lyndal Roper and Giuseppe Marcocci 

I work on the early modern history of unrest from a spatial-theoretical perspective. My project entails a comparative study of subversive networks in the German-speaking lands and Spain. Above all, I want to know where and how political discontent and conspiracy spread in (largely) illiterate societies. 

I hold a BA in History and English (2015) from Grove City College (USA), a Master of Public and International Affairs (2017) from the University of Pittsburgh (USA) Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), and an MA in Global History (2023) from the University of Heidelberg (Germany).

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