The German Peasant War of 1525 : new viewpoints / edited by Bob Scribner, Gerhard Benecke.

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 ext...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Scribner, Robert W. (Editor), Benecke, Gerhard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2021.
Edition:1st.
Series:Routledge library editions. Political protest ; v. 11.
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Table of Contents:
  • <P>1. Theses on the Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, 1476-1535 <I>Max Steinmetz </I> 2. The 'Peasant War' as the Revolution of the Common Man
  • Theses <I>Peter Blickle</I> 3. Towards a Social Interpretation of the German Peasant War <I>John C. Stalnaker</I> 4. The Gospel of Social Unrest <I>Heiko A. Oberman</I> 5. The Social and Economic Prehistory of the Peasant War in Lower Alsace <I>Francis Rapp</I> 6. The Peasant War in Franconia <I>Rudolf Endres</I> 7. The Socio-Economic Structure and Political Role of the Suburbs in Saxon and Thuringia in the Age of the German Early Bourgeois Revolution <I>Karl Czok</I> 8. Arms and Military Organisation in the German Peasant War <I>Siegfried Hoyer</I> 9. The Common Man's View of the State in the German Peasant War <I>Horst Buszello</I> 10. The Rights and Duties of Resistance in the Pamphlet <I>To the Assembly of Common Ancestry</I> (1525) <I>Siegfried Hoyer</I> 11. Biblicism versus Feudalism <I>Peter Blickle</I> 12. The Mentality of the Rebellious Peasants
  • the Samland Peasant Rebellion of 1525 <I>Heide Wunder</I> 13. The Peasant War in the Habsburg Lands as a Social Systems-Conflict <I>Jürgen Bücking</I> 14. Family and Land Tenure: A Case Study of Conflict in the German Peasant War 1525 <I>David Sabean</P></I>