Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the climactic scenes of the German Peasants’ War, a shocking event that Lyndal Roper, in her powerful book “Summer of Fire and Blood,” calls “the greatest ...

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A recent biography of the German preacher and leader of the Peasants’s War examines what remains radical about the short-lived rebellion he led. The German reformer Thomas Muntzer (1491–1525) and his ...

Lyndal Roper’s "Summer of Fire and Blood" is a profound and riveting exploration of one of the most tumultuous uprisings in early modern Europe. Published in February 2025, it offers one of the most ...

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Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was the start of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe ...

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