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1524–1527 CEIn-depth study

Albrecht Dürer, Three Peasants in Conversation, c.1497. Pre-war genre representation, not a record of participants or events in the Peasants’ War of 1525.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 19.73.98 · Fletcher Fund, 1919 · Public domain · Full frame retained; WebP encoding · Licence terms

Europe / Faith

Anabaptists and the Peasants’ War: different visions of reform

Village grievances, believers’ baptism and arguments about the sword intersected during the Reformation without forming a single movement. Their documents reveal sharply different answers to who could reform church and society.

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