The War of the Poor

by Vuillard, Eric
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ISBN: 9781635420081
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From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time.

In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic church, but it rapidly became an established and bourgeois authority itself. The rural laborers and the poor of the cities, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to ask: "And why shouldn't we have equality here and now on earth?"

There ensued a furious struggle between the powerful, the comfortable protestants, and the others: the wretched. They were led by a number of theologians, one of whom has left his mark on history through his determination and his sheer energy. His name was Thomas M ntzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story--that of an insurrection through the Word, which appropriately enough finds its echo in the inventive power of ric Vuillard's prose.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Vuillard, Eric
  • ISBN: 9781635420081
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.60 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 112
  • Publication Year: 2020

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