The War of the poor

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Label

The War of the poor

Statement of responsibility

Éric Vuillard ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

Creator

• Vuillard, Éric

Contributor

• Polizzotti, Mark
• ProQuest (Firm)

Author

• Vuillard, Éric

Translator

• Polizzotti, Mark

Subject

• 1524-1525
• Münzer, Thomas, approximately 1490-1525
• Peasants' War, 1524-1525
• Reformation -- Germany -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

"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, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question why they shouldn't 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 sheer energy. His name was Thomas Mun̈tzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story-that of an insurrection through the Word. In his characteristically bold, cinematic style, Eŕic Vuillard draws insights from this revolt from nearly five hundred years ago, which remains shockingly relevant to the dire inequalities we face today"--

Member of

• Guerre des pauvres

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

NhCcYBP

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries