Five hundred years ago, peasants in Central Europe revolted against their overlords. Inspired by the Protestant Reformation and Martin Luther’s confrontation with church hierarchy, peasants staged an ...
"James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household -- subsistence -- at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling ...
Around 500 years ago, an uprising began in central Germany. Now, the spark for that revolt has just been discovered. Robert Prust State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology of ...
As a professor of medieval Europe, I’ve taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt of 1381. Now that America is experiencing widespread unrest in the midst of its ...
The 20 March is the anniversary of The Twelve Articles of the Peasants Revolt in Germany in 1525. Four hundred ninety years ago at Memmingen near Lake Constance in south-western Germany peasants from ...
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