500 years ago, German peasants revolted – but their faith that the Protestant Reformation stood for freedom was dashed by Martin Luther and the nobility
In 1517, eight years before the German Peasants’ War, Luther launched the Reformation with his 95 Theses. The theses ...
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The Momentous Class Struggle of the German Peasants’ War
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s ...
Fighting demons: The New Apostolic Reformation is waging a holy war against democracy
That advice, quoting Sun Tzu, came from Frederick Clarkson, a senior researcher at Political Research Associates (and Salon ...
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Reformation and dissolution
The Battle of Bosworth in 1485 effectively marked the end of the dynastic conflict in England, popularly known as the Wars of the Roses ... birth of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
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The Scottish Reformation
it's war, ruin, offence, perdition and poison. If I am immoderate, at least I am simple and open." Martin Luther on Protestantism (1520). The 16th century was the age of the European Reformation ...