The German Reformation and the Peasants' War
Subtitle: a brief history with documents
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Basingstoke, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780312437183
Description: Michael Baylor explores the dynamic between the German Reformation and the Peasants' War -- one enduring, the other fleeting -- and the centuries-long debate over whether and how they might be connected. The book includes a collection of period documents which provide first-hand accounts from reformers and rebels--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Introduction : Germany's dual rebellions.; title: Popular discontent and the need for reform; title: The Reformation break; title: The gospel and social unrest; title: The Reformation in city and countryside; title: The onset and spread of the Peasants' War, 1524-1526; title: The aims of the insurrection; title: The Peasants' military and political organization; title: Luther, the peasants' defeat, and the aftermath of the rebellion; title: Part 2 : The documents.; title: Unrest before the Reformation; title: The Reformation : freedom, authority, and resistance; title: Religion and politics in the Peasants' War; title: The Debate on the Reformation and the Peasants' War