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The Peasants War in Germany, 1525-1526 (1899)

Author: Bax, Ernest Belfort, 1854-1926
Subject: Peasants' War, 1524-1525
Publisher: London S. Sonnenschein
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: AAC-2331
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Robarts - University of Toronto
Collection: toronto

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Reviewer: stbalbach - - June 23, 2007
Subject: Excellent narrative
The Peasants War in Germany was the largest popular uprising in European history (besides the French Revolution). Yet most modern history books devote a page or two at most. This is perhaps not surprising since the Peasants War is surrounded by racist, nationalist and socialist scholarship - Friedrich Engels famously wrote about it in 1850 from a Communist/Socialist perspective, and the Nazi's had some special attachment to it for their own agendas - most historians today just give it a brief account in relation to the Reformation.

I wanted to learn more about the specifics of the events - the battles, the people involved, the stories. Although written in 1899, this old fashioned historical narrative written in the tradition of Gibbon is a pleasure to read. For the most part it sticks with a chronological narrative of events, the first chapter has historical interpretations that are largely in-line with modern ones.

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