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The German Peasant War of 1525.
1. Peasants war, 1524-1525 - Addresses, essays, lectures
I. Scribner, Bob II. Benecke, Gerhard
943.03108 DD182 78-40624
ISBN 0-04-900031-4
ISBN 0-04-900032-2 Pbk.
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Acknowledgements
The essays of Professors Stalnaker and Sabean appear in their original language, and Professor Oberman has supplied us with an English version of a paper which was later rewritten and published in German. All other contributions have been translated first by the editors and then submitted to authors for approval before being published here. The essay of the late Dr Bcking has been checked by Dr Hans-Christoph Rublack. In some cases footnotes and/or text have been shortened. Readers who wish to follow up more detailed references or bibliographies are therefore referred to the original versions. Umlaut has usually not been included in the translation. Certain terms such as Landschaft, the meaning of which is by no means unambiguous in the original, have been translated as seems appropriate to the particular essay. Godly law has been preferred to divine law and old law to ancient law.
We should like to thank authors for permission to re-publish, and also to acknowledge the co-operation of their original publishers. The map and two figures have been produced by the Cartographic Unit, Department of Geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic, whom we thank for excellent draughtsmanship. The initial sub-editing was handled by Karin Benecke, and typing by the secretarial staff under Miss Revitt at Darwin College, University of Kent, and given the expert care of Mrs Sue Macdonald and her colleagues. For much-needed help with the problems of editing we are grateful to Keith Ashfield.
Portsmouth and Canterbury
BOB SCRIBNER
GERHARD BENECKE
Contents
Acknowledgements
Map The German Peasant War 15245
Chronology
Introduction
by Max Steinmetz
2 The Peasant War as the Revolution of the Common Man Theses by Peter Blickle
3 Towards a Social Interpretation of the German Peasant War by John C. Stalnaker
4 The Gospel of Social Unrest by Heiko A. Oberman
5 The Social and Economic Prehistory of the Peasant War in Lower Alsace by Francis Rapp
6 The Peasant War in Franconia by Rudolf Endres
7 The Socio-economic Structure and Political Role of the Suburbs in Saxony and Thuringia in the Age of the German Early Bourgeois Revolution by Karl Czok
8 Arms and Military Organisation in the German Peasant War by Siegfried Hoyer
9 The Common Mans View of the State in the German Peasant War by Horst Buszello
10 The Rights and Duties of Resistance in the Pamphlet To the Assembly of Common Peasantry (1525) by Siegfried Hoyer
11 Biblicism versus Feudalism by Peter Blickle
12 The Mentality of Rebellious Peasants the Samland Peasant Rebellion of 1525 by Heide Wunder
13 The Peasant War in the Habsburg Lands as a Social Systems-Conflict by Jrgen Bcking
14 Family and Land Tenure: A Case Study of Conflict in the German Peasant War 1525 by David Sabean
References
Chronology
1517: | 30 Oct. | Luthers 95 Theses |
1519: | Death of Maximilian I, election of Charles V |
Cortess conquest of Mexico |
151922: | Magellans circumnavigation of the world |
1521: | Apr. | Luther in Worms |
1521: | June | War between Charles V and Francis I |
1522: | Turkish conquest of Rhodes |
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