1st Edition

The German Peasant War of 1525

By Janos Bak Copyright 1977
    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1976. This is Volume 3 of a colelction of essays in the Journal of Peasant Studies on the War. There is immense importance of the German Peasant War, both in itself as the first national peasant revolt in Germany and because of the influence of Engels work on the subject.

    From resistance to revolt - the late mediaeval peasant wars in the context of social crisis, Frantisek Graus; the peasants of Swabia, 1525, Henry J. Cohn; images of the peasant, 1514-1525, R.W. Scribner; precursors of the peasant war - Bundschuh and Armer Konrad - movements at the eve of the reformation, Adolf Maube; old law and divine law in the German peasant war, Heide Wunder; the economic, social and political background of the 12 articles of the Swabian peasants of 1525, Peter Blickle; German agrarian institutions at the beginning of the 16th century -Upper Swabia as an example, David Sabean; the peasant war in Germany by Friedrich Engels - 125 years after, Janos Bak et al.

    Biography

    Janos Bak