Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Perhaps also influential to the revolt was the example of Luther, as his work was a rebellion against the two most significant authorities of the era when he opposed both the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor. [2] It is likely that Luther's views simply coincided with the desires of the peasants, and were used for that reason.
The peasants had to burden the many encumbrances they were charged with and in Martin Luther’s and the German Reformation’s stance they saw the affirmation that most of those were not provided for by the will of God. Luther was unhappy, however, with the peasants’ revolts and their invoking him.
Engels cites: "To the call of Luther of rebellion against the Church, two political uprisings responded, first, the one of lower nobility, headed by Franz von Sickingen in 1523, and then, the great peasant's war, in 1525; both were crushed, because, mainly, of the indecisiveness of the party having most interest in the fight, the urban ...
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...
Richard II of England meets the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt. Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by peasants in the countryside, or the burgess in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals between 1300 and 1500, part of a larger "Crisis of the Late Middle Ages".
The Peasant War in Germany (German: Der deutsche Bauernkrieg) by Friedrich Engels is a short account of the early-16th-century uprisings known as the German Peasants' War (1524–1525). It was written by Engels in London during the summer of 1850, following the revolutionary uprisings of 1848–1849, to which it frequently refers in a ...
Suppression of the rebellion 1886 Peasant rebellion in Ciomas Dutch East Indies: Farmer of Ciomas Suppression of the rebellion [70] 1888 Peasant Revolt in Banten Dutch East Indies: Bantenese peasants and ulamas: Suppression of the rebellion [71] 1892 Jerez uprising Spain: Regional fieldworkers Suppression of the rebellion [72] 1894–1895
Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther's compromises with feudal authority. He was a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising of 1525 commonly known as the German Peasants' War. In 1514, Müntzer became a priest in Braunschweig, where he began to question the teachings and practices of the Catholic ...