Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War - Hardcover

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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War - Hardcover

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War - Hardcover

by Lyndal Roper
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Winner of the Cundill Prize

From a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe

"A balanced, comprehensive survey of the uprising, gripping in its narrative and perceptive in its assessments, making it easily the most accessible study in English for a general readership." ―Financial Times

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as well over a hundred thousand people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, torching and plundering the monasteries, convents, and castles that stood in their way. But they proved no match for the forces of the lords, who put down the revolt by slaying somewhere between seventy and a hundred thousand peasants in just over two months.

In Summer of Fire and Blood, the first history of the German Peasants' War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the far-reaching ramifications of this rebellion. Though the war's victors portrayed the uprising as naive and inchoate, Roper reveals a mass movement that sought to make good on the radical potential of the Protestant Reformation. By recovering what the people themselves felt and believed, Summer of Fire and Blood reconstructs the thrilling, tragic story of the peasants' fight to change the world.
ISBN9781541647053
Author Lyndal Roper
PublisherBasic Books
GenreReligion & spirituality and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages544
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War - Hardcover

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War - Hardcover

By Lyndal Roper

About Lyndal Roper

Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Her previous books include Martin Luther and Witch Craze. She is a fellow of the British Academy, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. She lives in Oxford, South Wales, and Berlin.

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