The German Peasant War of 1525 / Edition 1

by Janos Bak

Overview

First Published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714630632
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/1976
Series:	Library of Peasant Studies ; No. 3 Series , #3
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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.