Foreword
Preface
List of Maps and Illustrations
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: GERMANY’S DUAL REBELLIONS
Popular Discontent and the Need for Reform
The Reformation Break
The Gospel and Social Unrest
The Reformation in City and Countryside
The Onset and Spread of the Peasants' War, 1524-1526
The Aims of the Insurrection
The Peasants’ Military and Political Organization
Luther, the Peasants' Defeat, and the Aftermath of the Rebellion
PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS
1. Unrest Before the Reformation
1. The Articles of the Bundschuh in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1502
2. Title Page of Pamphilius Gegenbach’s The Bundschuh, 1514
3. The “Poor Conrad” movement in Württemberg, 1514
2. The Reformation: Freedom, Authority, and Resistance
4. Martin Luther, Ninety-five Theses, October31, 1517
5. Pope Leo X, Arise, Oh Lord (Exsurge domini), June, 1520
6. Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, 1520
7. Greasing the Bundschuh, 1522
8. Martin Luther, A Sincere Admonition to Guard against Rebellion, 1523
9. Peasants Torturing an Indulgence Preacher, 1525
10. Huldrych Zwingli, The Sixty-Seven Articles, 1523
11. Martin Luther, The Rights of a Christian Congregation, 1523
12. Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes, 1524
3. Religion and Politics in the Peasants’ War
13. Articles of the Peasants of Stühlingen, early April 1525
14. Sebastian Lotzer and Christoph Schappeler, The Twelve Articles of the Upper Swabian Peasants, March 1525
15. Thomas Müntzer [?] and Balthasar Hubmaier, The Constitutional Draft, 1525
16. Title Page of The Memmingen Federal Ordinance, March 7,1525
17. The Memmingen Federal Ordinance, March 7,1525
18. The Document of Articles, May 8, 1525
19. The Field Ordinances of the Franconian Peasantry, April 24-27, 1525
20. Thomas Müntzer, Letter to the League at Allstedt, April 26 or 27, 1525
21. Michael Gaismair, Territorial Constitution for the Tirol, February or March 1526
4. The Debate on the Reformation and the Peasants’ War
22. Martin Luther, Admonition to Peace. A Reply to the Twelve Articles, April 1525
23. Title Page of To the Assembly of the Common Peasantry, May 1525
24. Christoph Schappeler[?], To the Assembly of the Common Peasantry, May 1525
25. Title Page of Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of the Peasants, May 1525
26. Martin Luther, Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of the Peasants, May 1525
27. Hermann Mühlpfort, Mayor of Zwickau, Letter to Stephan Roth at Wittenberg, June 4, 1525
28. Martin Luther, An Open Letter on the Harsh Book Against the Peasants, June or July 1525
29. Albrecht Dürer, Design for a Monument to the Victory over the Peasants
Appendixes
A Chronology of the Early Reformation and the Peasants’ War (1502-1526)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index