Brady Thomas, Midelfort Erik. The Revolution of 1525: The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. — 245 p.A major book that scholars will want to study closely, both for its provocative treatment of the interaction of economic and social pressures with politics and ideology and for its many revisions of Marxist and non-Marxist interpretations. This book will influence scholarship for some time to come. The Crisis of Feudalism and the Causes of the Revolution. The Twelve Articles and Their Economic, Social, and Political Background. The Spread and Influence of the Twelve Articles. The Crisis of the Agrarian Order and the Critique of the Early Modem State. Biblicism versus Feudalism. The Goals of the Revolution: Christian Welfare of the Community and Brotherly Love. The Christian Association and Assemblies: Models of a New Social and Political Order? The Peasants' War as the Rebellion of the Common Man.