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Summer of Fire and Blood

By Lyndal Roper

Summer of Fire and Blood Politics & History

Summer of Fire and Blood

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A Finalist for the Cundill Prize in History From a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe “Powerful.” ―Wall Street Journal 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. 
Product details
Number of Pages:
544
Release Date:
2025-02-11
Publication Date:
2025-02-11
Publisher:
Basic Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
154164705X
ISBN13:
9781541647053
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
788 g
Height:
165 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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