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-The '''Peasants' War''' (in [[German language|German]], ''der Deutsche Bauernkrieg'') was a [[popular revolt in late medieval Europe|popular revolt]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] in the years 1524/1525. It consisted, like the preceding [[Bundschuh]] movement and the [[Hussite Wars]], of a series of economic as well as religious revolts by [[peasant]]s, townsfolk and [[nobility|nobles]]. The movement possessed no common program.+'''Peasant''', '''Peasants' ''' or '''Popular''' is variously paired with '''Revolt''', '''Uprising''' and '''War''' and may refer to (sorted chronologically):
 +*[[Daze Village Uprising]] 209 BC
 +*[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]] 184
 +*[[Bagaudae]] in 3rd- to 5th-century [[Gaul]] and [[Hispania]]
 +*[[Stellinga]]
 +*[[Popular revolt in late medieval Europe]]:
 +**[[Ivaylo]] rebellion in Bulgaria 1277-1280
 +**[[Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323-1328]]
 +**[[St. George's Night Uprising|St. George's Night Uprising in Estonia]] 1343-1345
 +**[[Jacquerie]] in France (1358)
 +**[[Revolt of the Ciompi]] in Italy (1378)
 +**[[English peasants' revolt of 1381]]
 +**[[Harelle]] in France (1382)
 +*[[Ikkō-ikki]] in Japan (1488–1588)
 +*[[Poor Conrad|Poor Conrad rebellion]] in [[Württemberg]] (1514)
 +*[[György Dózsa|Dózsa rebellion]] in [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] (1514)
 +*[[Slovenian peasant revolt of 1515]]
 +*[[German peasants war of 1524-1525]]
 +*[[Opryshky]] Movement (1529-19th century)
 +*[[Kett's Rebellion]] in England (1549)
 +*[[Croatian-Slovene Peasants' Revolt]] (1573)
 +*[[Ivan Bolotnikov]] (1606–1607)
 +*[[Kostka-Napierski Uprising]] (1651)
 +*[[Swiss peasant war of 1653]]
 +*[[Stenka Razin]] (1670)
 +*[[Bulavin Rebellion]] (1707–1708)
 +*[[Pugachev's Rebellion]] (1773–1775)
 +*[[Peasants' War (1798)]]
 +*[[Galician slaughter]] (1846)
 +*[[Taiping Rebellion]] (1851)
 +*[[Mahtra War|Mahtra War in Estonia]] (1858)
 +*[[Chichibu Incident]] in Japan (1884)
 +*[[1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt]] (1907)
 +*[[Tebhaga movement]] (1946)
 +*[[Telangana Rebellion]] (1946)
-The conflict, which took place mostly in southern, western and central areas of modern [[Germany]] but also affected areas in neighboring modern [[Switzerland]] and [[Austria]], involved at its height in the spring and summer of 1525 an estimated 300,000 peasant insurgents: contemporary estimates put the dead at 100,000. It was Europe's most massive and widespread popular uprising before the 1789 [[French Revolution]].+Note: many of these conflicts have multiple names, see articles for details.
-==Anabaptists==+
-On [[December 27]], [[1521]], three [[Zwickau prophets]], both influenced by and influencing [[Thomas Müntzer]], appeared in [[Wittenberg]] from [[Zwickau]]: Thomas Dreschel, Nicolas Storch and Mark Thomas Stübner. [[Martin Luther|Luther's]] reform was not radical enough for them. Like the [[Roman Catholic Church]], Luther practiced [[pedobaptism|infant baptism]], which the [[Anabaptist]]s considered to be "neither scriptural nor primitive, nor fulfilling the chief conditions of admission into a visible brotherhood of saints, to wit, repentance, faith, spiritual illumination and free surrender of self to [[Christ]]."+
-The reformist theologian and associate of Luther, [[Philipp Melanchthon]], who was powerless against the enthusiasts with whom his co-reformer [[Andreas Karlstadt]] sympathized, appealed to Luther, who was still hiding in the [[Wartburg]]. Luther was cautious in not condemning the new doctrine out of hand, but advised Melanchthon to treat its supporters gently and to test their spirits, in case they should be of [[God]]. There was confusion in Wittenberg, whose schools and university had sided with the "prophets" and were closed. From this arises the allegation that the Anabaptists were enemies of learning, which is contradicted by the fact that two of them, [[Ludwig Haetzer|Haetzer]] and [[Hans Denck|Denck]], produced and printed the first German translation of the [[Hebrews|Hebrew]] prophets in 1527. The first leaders of the movement in [[Zürich]]—[[Conrad Grebel]], [[Felix Manz]], [[George Blaurock]], [[Balthasar Hubmaier]]&mdash;were learned in Greek, Latin and Hebrew. 
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-On [[March 6]], [[1522]]), Luther returned to Wittenberg, where he interviewed the prophets, scorned their "spirits", banished them from the city, and had their adherents ejected from Zwickau and Erfurt. Denied access to the churches, the latter preached and celebrated the sacrament in private houses. Having been driven from the cities, they swarmed across the countryside. Compelled to leave Zwickau, Müntzer visited [[Bohemia]], lived for two years at Alltstedt in Thuringia, and in 1524 spent some time in Switzerland. During this period he proclaimed his revolutionary religious and political doctrines with increasing vehemence, and, so far as the lower orders were concerned, with growing success. 
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-The Peasants' War began chiefly as a revolt against feudal oppression, but under the leadership of Müntzer it became a war against all constituted authorities in a forcible attempt to establish Müntzer's ideal of a Christian commonwealth based on absolute equality and the community of goods. The total defeat of the rebels at [[Battle of Frankenhausen|Frankenhausen]] ([[May 15]], [[1525]]), followed by the execution of Müntzer and several other leaders, proved to be a merely temporary check on the Anabaptist movement. Scattered throughout Germany, [[Switzerland]] and the [[Netherlands]] were zealous propagandists whose teachings many were prepared to follow as soon as another leader emerged. 
==See also== ==See also==
-*[[List of peasant revolts]]+*[[Roman Servile Wars]]
-*[[Florian Geyer]]+*[[Peasant movement]]
-*[[Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt]]+
-*[[German Peasants' War]]+
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