German Peasants' War
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German Peasants' War
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#2An episode of history I had never heard about. 100-300,000 peasants killed.
As someone who reads a lot about the early history of religion, the most interesting part of this for me was the role of Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism: "In Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, Luther condemned the violence as the devil's work and called for the aristocrats to put down the rebels like mad dogs". My study of history of Christianity had left Protestantism relatively unscathed up to now. Well, no longer.
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#3Historical context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant_republic
Notably Handeln and the communes of the Swiss Cantons are considered to have "survived" into 19th C.
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#4An episode of history I had never heard about. 100-300,000 peasants killed. As someone who reads a lot about the early history of religion, the most interesting part of this for me was the role of Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism: "In Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants , Luther condemned the violence as the devil's work and called for the aristocrats to put down the rebels like mad dogs". M…
the protestants have a long history of violence, beginning with the persecution of the Anabaptists, the witch burning and even running concentration camps for the Nazis (KZ Kuhlen), they are not really unscathed
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#5Thomas Müntzer is one of the unsung heroes of this revolt, unfortunately very little is left of him, most biographies take about 100 pages or less
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#6An episode of history I had never heard about. 100-300,000 peasants killed. As someone who reads a lot about the early history of religion, the most interesting part of this for me was the role of Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism: "In Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants , Luther condemned the violence as the devil's work and called for the aristocrats to put down the rebels like mad dogs". M…
the protestants have a long history of violence, beginning with the persecution of the Anabaptists, the witch burning and even running concentration camps for the Nazis (KZ Kuhlen), they are not really unscathed
Same for the Hussites in Bohemia (although a bit earlier, but pretty similar).
With Jan Žižka they also had arguably one of the best commanders in history, up there with Alexander and Hanibal
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#7The peasants’ war happened over and over again in Chinese history among the gaps of dynasties. That’s a result of autocracy.
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#8If anyone’s interested about this period of time (and the Anabaptist revolution) a great novel: Q by Luther Blisset
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
the protestants have a long history of violence, beginning with the persecution of the Anabaptists, the witch burning and even running concentration camps for the Nazis (KZ Kuhlen), they are not really unscathed
Same for the Hussites in Bohemia (although a bit earlier, but pretty similar). With Jan Žižka they also had arguably one of the best commanders in history, up there with Alexander and Hanibal
there are many places in Austria called "Tabor", there might be a connection to the Taborite movement
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#10An episode of history I had never heard about. 100-300,000 peasants killed. As someone who reads a lot about the early history of religion, the most interesting part of this for me was the role of Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism: "In Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants , Luther condemned the violence as the devil's work and called for the aristocrats to put down the rebels like mad dogs". M…
I can recommend The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke