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Peasants’ fight to change the world
The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as well over a 100,000 people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, torching and plundering the monasteries, convents, and castles that stood in their way. But they proved no match for the forces of the lords, who put down the revolt by slaying over 70,000 peasants in just over two months.
Though the war’s victors portrayed the uprising as naive and inchoate, Roper reveals a mass movement that sought to make good on the radical potential of the Protestant Reformation.
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“Roper is a breathtaking storyteller. Her explosive reassessment of the Peasants’ War is a theological, ecological, and social epic. She shows why the chaotic violence, symbolic arsenal of brotherhood, and maze of dreams and visions should matter to us in the twenty-first century.”―Joanna Bourke, author of Fear
Additional Book Details
Pages: | 544 |
Release Date: | February 11, 2025 |
ISBN: | 9781541647053 |
Club ID: | 1430794 |
Format: | Regular Print |