The Peasants War in Germany, 1525-1526
Author: Ernest Belfort Bax
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
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The Peasant War in Germany
Author: Friedrich Engels
Publisher:
Published: 2022-02-23
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781684226788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Peasant War in Germany was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. It failed because of intense opposition from the aristocracy, who slaughtered up to 100,000 of the 300,000 poorly armed peasants and farmers. The survivors were fined and achieved few, if any, of their goals. Like the preceding Bundschuh movement and the Hussite Wars, the war consisted of a series of both economic and religious revolts in which peasants and farmers, often supported by Anabaptist clergy, took the lead. The War was Europe's largest and most widespread popular uprising prior to the French Revolution of 1789. The fighting was at its height in the middle of 1525. Engels analyzes the social and economic forces which brought about the peasant revolt of 1525 and its role in the Reformation. He portrays vividly the contrasting figures of Thomas Muenzer and Martin Luther, in relation to the revolutionary peasants and to the princes. The book has an enduring theoretical interest, as one of the earliest discussions of the revolutionary potential of the peasantry. Illustrated with drawings and woodcuts of the time.
The Revolution of 1525
Author: Peter Blickle
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A major book that scholars will want to study closely, both for its provocative treatment of the interaction of economic and social pressures with politics and ideology and for its many revisions of Marxist and non-Marxist interpretations... [Blickle's] book will influence scholarship for some time to come."-- Journal of Modern History.
Armies of the German Peasants' War 1524–26
Author: Douglas Miller
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2003-02-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781841765075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1520s, a brief but savage war broke out in Germany when various insurgent groups rose to overthrow the power structure. The movement took as its emblem a peasant's shoe and the collective title of 'Bundschuh', and this became known as the Peasants' War (1524–1526) - although the rebel armies actually included as many townsmen, miners, disaffected knights and mercenary soldiers as rural peasants. The risings involved large armies of up to 18,000 men, and there were several major battles before the movement was put down with the utmost ferocity. This book details the armies, tactics, costume, weapons, personalities and events of this savage war.
The German Reformation and the Peasants' War
Author: Michael G. Baylor
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2018-10-25
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1319239501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Protestant Reformation, begun with Martin Luther’s posting of The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, rapidly escalated into an evangelical reform movement that transformed European Christianity. Less than a decade later, a massive rebellion of German commoners challenged the social and political order in what would prove to be the greatest popular rebellion in European history until the French Revolution. In this volume, Michael Baylor explores the relationship between these two momentous upheavals — one enduring, the other fleeting — and the centuries-long debate over whether and how they might be connected. A collection of period documents — including letters, sermons, pamphlets and illustrations — offer firsthand accounts from the reformers, rebels, and the institutions they sought to topple. Document headnotes, maps, a chronology of events, questions to consider, a selected bibliography, and an index are provided to enrich student understanding.
Martin Luther in Context
Author: David M. Whitford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 813
ISBN-13: 1108584098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Luther remains a popular, oft-quoted, referenced, lauded historical figure. He is often seen as the fulcrum upon which the medieval turned into the modern, the last great medieval or the first great modern; or, he is the Protestant hero, the virulent anti-Semite; the destroyer of Catholic decadence, or the betrayer of the peasant cause. An important but contested figure, he was all of these things. Understanding Luther's context helps us to comprehend how a single man could be so many seemingly contradictory things simultaneously. Martin Luther in Context explores the world around Luther in order to make the man and the Reformation movement more understandable. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it includes over forty short, accessible essays, all specially commissioned for this volume, which reconstruct the life and world of Martin Luther. The volume also contextualizes the scholarship and reception of Luther in the popular mind.
Imperial Villages
Author: Beat Kümin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9004396608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHundreds of rural communities tasted political freedom in the Holy Roman Empire. For shorter or longer periods, villagers managed local affairs without subjection to territorial overlords. In this first book-length study, Beat Kümin focuses on the five case studies of Gochsheim and Sennfeld (in present-day Bavaria), Sulzbach and Soden (Hesse) and Gersau (Switzerland). Adopting a comparative perspective across the late medieval and early modern periods, the analysis of multiple sources reveals distinct extents of rural self-government, the forging of communalized confessions and an enduring attachment to the empire. Negotiating inner tensions as well as mounting centralization pressures, Reichsdörfer provide privileged insights into rural micro-political cultures while their stories resonate with resurgent desires for greater local autonomy in Europe today.
German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650
Author: Thomas A. Brady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-13
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 052188909X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.
Luther, Conflict, and Christendom
Author: Christopher Ocker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 1107197686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end. The Reformation was a controversy about him.
Reformation Europe
Author: Ulinka Rublack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1107018420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first survey to utilise the approaches of the new cultural history in analysing how Reformation Europe came about.
