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Spring 1525: Der Bawrn Auffstandt – the Peasantsʼ Uprising breaks out in Middle Germany! While the unrest in other regions already had been suppressed, here – in the territories of the House of Wettin – the rebellion shows some remarkable characteristics. These included the alliance of peasants with the poor urban population, the rebellious behavior of miners in northern Thuringia and the Ore Mountains, and the effective propaganda of preachers such as Thomas Müntzer.
But here, too, the uprising was lost, and the contradictions that became more pronounced with the great economic, social, and cultural advances of the age of humanism and the Reformation remained unresolved. What was truly revolutionary was the new self-understanding of this era, often expressed in the demand for Fryheit. But freedom was gone for the foreseeable future; the situation of the peasants changed very little, and this delayed social development in the Reich for centuries.

2026, 176 pages, Hardcover, 37 ill. (b/w), 15 x 22 cm;
ISBN: 978-3-938533-85-7