382. No Lord but God: the Peasants’ War and Radical Reformation
Faced with massive political upheaval and the rise of the Anabaptists, Luther argues for a socially conservative version of the Reformation.
Themes:
• P. Matheson (ed. and trans.), Collected Letters and Writings of Thomas Müntzer (Edinburgh: 1988).
• M.G. Baylor (ed. and trans.), The Radical Reformation (Cambridge: 1991).
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• M.G. Baylor, The German Reformation and the Peasants’ War: a Brief History with Documents (Boston: 2012).
• P. Blickle, The Revolution of 1525 (Baltimore: 1981).
• W.D.J. Cargill Thompson, The Political Thought of Martin Luther (Brighton: 1984).
• R.N. Crossley, Luther and the Peasants’ War: Luther’s Actions and Reactions (New York: 1974).
• J. Estes, Peace, Order and the Glory of God: Secular Authority and the Church in the Thought of Luther and Melanchthon 1518–1559 (Leiden: 2005).
• G. Franz, Der deutsche Bauernkrieg 1525 (Berlin: 1926).
• R. Keen, Divine and Human Authority in Reformation Thought: German Theologians on Political Order 1520-1555 (Nieuwkoop: 1997).
• H. Kirchner, Luther and the Peasants’ War, trans. D. Jodock (Philadelphia: 1972).
• Q. Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 2: The Age of Reformation (Cambridge: 1978).
• J.M. Stayer, The German Peasants’ War and Anabaptist Community of Goods (Montreal: 1991).
• G. Williams, The Radical Reformation (Philadelphia: 1962).
Episodes 371 - 396: Renaissance and Reformation in Central Europe
Comments
Bias
I'm surprised you choose to take a position. I'm not interested in joining your religion, dude.
In reply to Bias by Michael
Bias
Out of curiosity, which side do you think I am on? (And of what issue?) Do you mean, that I expressed sympathy for the peasant uprising? Or because I'm somewhat critical of the Reformers for refusing to follow through on the social implications of their movement?
In reply to Bias by Peter Adamson
What a strange criticism…
What a strange criticism from Michael. I think you presented everything perfectly reasonable. Commenting on medieval social inequality is not the same as pushing a modern political/religious agenda surely. Been listening for five years, keep up the good work!
In reply to What a strange criticism… by Jane
Criticism
Thanks so much! To be honest I am still curious what sort of bias I was being accused of there. I found it odd too, like, are there people who look back and say "boy those peasants they really deserved what was coming to them"? I guess we may never know what he meant!
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