What do *YOU* know about the German Peasants War that occured roughly 500 years ago?What do *YOU* wish to know?What are *YOUR* hot takes about this event?
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>>17983840>German Peasants WarWho did they ethnically cleanse from their lands? I assume it was a fundamentalist christian revival purge of non whites of some kind, an internal crusade.
>>17983840>What are *YOUR* hot takes about this event?The library I used to frequent had a lot of history books written by DDR professors. They loved the German Peasant's War.
>>17983840>insurgencies>remove kebab
>>17983851It was a revolt by many semi-independently operating peasant formations (the so called Bauernhof - peasants mobs would be a literal translation). Causes for those revolts were of social, economic and religious origin. This event fell into the same timeframe as the Reformation and many peasants were fed up with the burdons of tithes and the reduction of formerly common ressources (grazing areas, forests, fishing rights) that increasingly fell into the property of the larger feudal lords - which included abbys and monestaries.As the violent uprisings became larger in scale and more organised, the Swabian League (an alliance of several feudal lords) retaliated with a modern Landsknecht army. And while some Bauernhaufen were led by former miltary members (the Black Band of Florian Geyer, an Imperial Knight) many were simply bands of angry peasants who were quickly beaten by the army of the Swabian League. What followed were brutal repressions. Georg III. von Waldburg (pic rel), the main general of the League, conducted many massacres on revolting or suspected villages.It should be noted that many cities and petty nobles also sided with the peasantry to oppose the inceasing power of the larger feudal lords. >>17983858They sure did! The GDR saw them as early revolutionaries in line with their own political program - wholeheartedly ignoring the strong religious motivations of the peasantry.But to be fair, the large feudal lords used their victory to further erode the early medieval liberties of the cities, petty nobles and commoners in favor of their own authority.
Here a stamp by the GDR which celebrates Thomas Müntzer. He was a protestant theologian who sympathised heavily with the peasants. He became a religious and political leader of the peasants in Thuringia. He clashed heavily with Martin Luther (who sided with the nobles against the peasants) but some of his church reforms, mainly music pieces, continued to be used to this present day.Münzter found his end after the Battle of Frankenhausen of 1525, where the peasants succumbed to an army of several feudal lords, as he was imprisoned and executed.>>17983868What does this have to do with the German Peasants War?
Müntzer also designed this flag for his particular movement." Verbum domini maneat in etternum" translates to "Let the word of the Lord remain forever". The rainbow being a common christian symbol for the covenant with God.
A more "proletarian" symbol of the revolting peasants was the Bundschuh Flag, which simply depicts a common type of footwear.
>>17983963>whatthat was an insurgency yes??
>>17984024Would you also post those pictures in a thread about the Boudican revolt?
>>17983927>wholeheartedly ignoring the strong religious motivations of the peasantryThey just wanted to RTVRN to an age between Roman Law.
>>17984109While not adopted by all Bauernhaufen, the Twelve Articles of Memmingen were the closest thing to a political program:1) Every town should have the right to elect its pastor and to remove him if he behaves improperly. The pastor should preach the gospel clearly and simply, without any human addition, since Scripture states that we can come to God only through true faith.2) The large tithe is to be used to pay the priests. Any surplus is to be used to help the poor and to pay the war tax. The small tithe is to be abolished because it is a human invention and not based on the bible, for the Lord God created livestock freely for man.3) Until now it has been practice that we have been treated like serfs, which is deplorable, since Christ redeemed all of us with his precious blood, both the shepherd and the nobleman, with no exceptions. Accordingly we hereby declare that we are free and want to remain free.4) It is unbrotherly and not in accordance with the word of God that the poor man is not entitled to hunt game or fowl, or to fish. Since when God our Lord created man, he gave him power over all beasts, the birds in the air and the fish in the water.5) The nobles have taken sole possession of the forest. When the poor man needs something, he must buy it for twice its price. Consequently, all the forests that were not bought by the nobles shall be returned to the village so that anybody can satisfy his needs therefrom for timber and firewood.6) The excessive compulsory labour demanded of us, which grows from day to day, should be reduced to the amount that our parents used to perform, according to God's word.7) The nobility shall not force us to perform more compulsory labour than was agreed upon.8) Many estates cannot afford the rent. Honest people should inspect these estates and reassess the rent fairly, so that the farmer does not do his work in vain, for every laborer is worthy of his wages.1/2
9) New laws are constantly being made to impose new fines. Punishments are not being meted out depending on the offence but instead in an arbitrary fashion. In our opinion we should be judged in accordance with the old written law, according to the case's merits, instead of on a whim.10) Many nobles have appropriated the common meadows and fields belonging to the towns . We want them returned to all of us.11) The death tax (Mortuarium) should be abolished completely, and never again should widows and orphans be robbed so shamefully against God and honor12) It is our decision and final opinion that if one or more of the articles listed herein contradict God's word, we shall rescind them if it is explained to us on the basis of what is written. If any articles were already granted to us and it emerges afterwards that they were unjust, then they shall be null and void. Likewise, all this is subject to the condition that if additional articles are found here written that are against God and a grievance by some other person.About 25000 printed issues of those 12 Articles were produced and distributed.
>>17984080>wouldprobablyI am always looking for new spamming opportunities
>>17984195Literally the french revolution.
>>17984220Based.
I know a little bit. I'm aware that some of its leaders used Lutheran ideas like critique of clerical power to justify social demands, which I think is an interesting tactic.
>>17984648Well the clergy and nobility used the scripture to justify the existing social and economic circumstances.
