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The war of the poor

The war of the poor

Vuillard, Éric, author.
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"From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to quest...

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Münzer, Thomas, approximately 1490-1525
Peasants' War, 1524-1525
Reformation Germany Biography
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ISBN:
9781635422573
9781635420081
Edition:
First soft cover edition
Description:
79, 17 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes an excerpt from: The order of the day
Originally published in French: Arles, France : Actes Sud, 2019
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Other Press, 2020
Translation of: La guerre des pauvres
Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
In English, translated from the French
Contents:
The story of Thomas Müntzer
Zwickau
God and the people speak the same language
In Bohemia
The whole world
The word
The sermon to the princes
The summer Is knocking at our doors
The insurgency of ordinary men
Last letters
Words
The battle of Frankenhausen
Müntzer beheaded
LCCN:
2020029868
Control Number:
3386995
Other Authors:
Polizzotti, Mark, translator
translation of: Vuillard, Éric. Guerre des pauvres. English
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