Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Peter Blickle -- Introduction and Acknowledgments / Peter Blickle -- Translator's Note / Peter Blickle -- Chapter One Communalism as an Organizational Principle between Medieval and Modem Times / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Two Memmingen - a Center of the Reformation / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Three From Resentment to Legal Autonomy: The Fight Against Spiritual Sanctions in the Swiss Confederation / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Four "A great, unprecedented upheaval of the Common Man throughout the German lands"-the Revolution of 1525 as an Event / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Five The Function of Diets in the Peasants' War / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Six The Reformation in the City and Territory of Erfurt: A Paradigmatic Case / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Seven The Divine Law of the Peasants and the Divine Justice of the Reformers / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Eight Freedom and Justice: Ethical Questions to Theologians of the Reformation in Germany / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Nine The Political Incapacitation of the Peasantry: Critique and Revision of a Hypothesis / Peter Blickle -- Chapter Ten The Social Dialectics of the Reformation Movement / Peter Blickle -- Places of Original Publication / Peter Blickle -- Bibliography / Peter Blickle -- Index of Places / Peter Blickle -- Index of Subjects / Peter Blickle -- Index of Names / Peter Blickle -- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought / Peter Blickle.

From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man brings together important studies related to a coherent interpretation of the Reformation and the Peasants War of 1525 as a mass movement, rooted in the structures of the communities of towns and villages. The volume presents both detailed studies from the archives and conceptualized essays.

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