The German Reformation And The Peasants War

Author : Tom Scott,Bob Scribner
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616140243

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The German Peasants' War by Tom Scott,Bob Scribner Pdf

The German Peasants' War of 1524-26 was the greatest popular uprising in European history before the French Revolution. Its significance is heightened by the contemporary struggle for religious renewal in the Reformation, which had a decisive influence on its course. Yet very little writing in English has discussed the Peasants' War in detail. This volume traces the war through contemporary documents, both published and original, for the English-speaking reader in translation. It gives generous coverage to the causes and course of the revolt, and to its ideological mainsprings and forms of organization. At the same time it illustrates the authorities' response, the role of towns in the revolt, and the sociological variety of the participants. The main political theories inspired by the revolt receive full treatment, and the volume concludes with detailed coverage of the attempts to suppress the insurrection and its political and social aftermath. Accompanying the selection of 162 documents is an extended introduction, which traces the main issues facing historians in seeking to understand the revolt: it also provides thumbnail sketches of the course of the Peasants' War in the five main areas of rebellion. The volume includes eight maps for convenient reference and a select bibliography for further reading. This study will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students of history, politics, religion, sociology, and anthropology taking courses on early modern Europe, revolutions and social movements, peasant studies, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and the Reformation.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684226783

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The Peasant War in Germany by Friedrich Engels Pdf

2022 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.

Author : Michael G. Baylor
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319239503

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The German Reformation and the Peasants' War by Michael G. Baylor Pdf

The 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.

Author : James M. Stayer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Anabaptists
ISBN : 9780773508422

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German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods by James M. Stayer Pdf

"Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass preaching, the construct of the devil as an outcast from heaven and the source of all evil was linked both to the conception of women as sensual and malicious figures betraying man's soul on its arduous journey to salvation and to the notion of Jews as treacherous dissidents in the Christian landscape. These stereotypes, widely disseminated for over three hundred years, persist today. The exemplum, or cautionary story incorporated into preachers' manuals and popular homilies, was an important mode of religious teaching for clerical and lay folk alike. Sermon narratives drawn from Hindu mythology, Arab storytelling, and secular folktales entertained all classes of medieval society while dispensing theological and cultural instruction. In Devils, Women, and Jews, the vital genre of the medieval sermon story is, for the first time, made accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike. Rendered in modern English, the tales provide an invaluable primary resource for medievalists, anthropologists, psychologists, folklorists, and students of women's studies and Judaica. Critical introductions and explanatory headnotes contextualize the tales, and comprehensive endnotes and a bibliography allow readers to follow up analogue and subject studies in their own areas of interest."--from amazon.ca.

Author : Tom Scott
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : Peasants' War, 1524-1525
ISBN : 0391037692

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The German Peasants' War by Tom Scott Pdf

The German Peasant's War of 1524-26 was the greatest popular uprising in European history before the French Revolution. Its significance is heightened by the contemporary struggle for religious renewal in the Reformation, which had a decisive influence on its course. Yet relatively little writing in English has discussed the Peasant's War in detail. This volume analyses the War through contemporary documents, both published and original, presented here in translation. Accompanying the selection of 162 documents is an extended introduction which traces the main issues facing historians in seeking to understand the revolt.

Author : Peter Blickle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001001556

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The Revolution of 1525 by Peter Blickle Pdf

"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.

Author : Michael G. Baylor
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0312437188

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The German Reformation and the Peasants' War by Michael G. Baylor Pdf

The 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.

Author : Janos Bak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000424256

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The German Peasant War of 1525 by Janos Bak Pdf

This book, first published in 1976, re-examines many aspects of the German Peasant War of 1525, important as the first national peasant revolt in Germany and because of the influence of Engels’ work on the subject. With one contributor noting the similarities between the organisation, demands and action of the Swabian peasants and those of the Zapatas of Mexico four centuries later, these essays provide remarkable insights and analyses into the enduring importance of the German Peasant War.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015050030116

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The Peasant War in Germany by Friedrich Engels Pdf

Author : Ernest Belfort Bax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000007694912

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The Peasants War in Germany, 1525-1526 by Ernest Belfort Bax Pdf

Author : Bob Scribner,Gerhard Benecke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000424225

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The German Peasant War of 1525 – New Viewpoints by Bob Scribner,Gerhard Benecke Pdf

This book, first published in 1979, presents a series of important investigations into the German Peasant War of 1525 – the last great peasant revolt and the first modern revolution. Previously under-studied by English-speaking historians, these essays provide a valuable analysis of the aims and extent of the Peasant War, and are representative of the various elements in the historiographical debate.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151147694X

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The Peasant War in Germany by Friedrich Engels Pdf

The 1848 uprisings in Germany put Engels in mind of the last great peasant rebellions of the 1500s. As he would later write: "The parallel between the German Revolution of 1525 and that of 1848-49 was too obvious to be altogether ignored at that time." Engels demonstrates the failure of both these revolutions was largely attributable to the bourgeois/burgerdom (and thus underscoring the modern need for an alliance between the working proletariat and the working peasantry). The Peasant War in Germany was the first history book to assert that the real motivating force behind the Reformation and 16th-century peasant war was socio-economic (class conflict) rather than "merely" religious. ADDENDUM: Engels' "The Peasant Question in France and Germany" was part of the current debate around agrarian issues. Engels wrote it as rebuttal to various French Socialists (like Vollmar) and the agrarian programme adopted in Marseilles in 1892 and supplemented in Nantes in 1894 (Frankfurt Congress of German Social-Democrats). In it, Engels discusses a policy of alliance between the working class and the working peasantry. It was penned between November 15-22, 1894 and first published in the journal Die Neue Zeit, Bd.1, No.10, 1894-95.

Author : Peter Blickle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0391037307

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Communal Reformation by Peter Blickle Pdf

Communal Reformation is the most original and provocative book to appear in its field in the past quarter-century. It met with an enthusiastic response, particularly in England and the United States, when first published in Germany in 1985 and is now available in translation. Peter Blickle's groundbreaking study, which is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of pre-modern Europe, the development of Germany, the history of Christianity, and historical sociology, reconstructs the connection between the crisis of rural society at the end of the Middle Ages, the great Peasants' War of 1525, and the reformation as a social movement. Blickle focuses on southern Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the later Middle Ages and Early Modern eras (roughly 1400 to 1600), though his work has important implications for the social and religious history of Europe as a whole.

Author : Ernest Bax
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781537810003

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The Peasants War by Ernest Bax Pdf

The time was out of joint in a very literal sense of that somewhat hackneyed phrase. Every established institution - political, social, and religious - was shaken and showed the rents and fissures caused by time and by the growth of a new life underneath it. The empire - the Holy Roman - was in a parlous way as regarded its cohesion. The power of the princes, the representatives of local centralised authority, was proving itself too strong for the power of the emperor, the recognised representative of centralised authority for the whole German-speaking world.

Author : Tom Scott,Albert Abane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781349202249

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Thomas Müntzer by Tom Scott,Albert Abane Pdf