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Il `Bauernfuhrer' Michael Gaismair e l'utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare, by Aldo Stella (Bologna: il Mulino, 1999; pp. 340. L44,000). Studies of the German Peasants' War by German scholars have [...]

Attempts to explain the impact of reforming doctrines in sixteenth-century Germany have in recent years moved away from the welter of movements and events in the 1520s to unearth instead [...]

The leitmotiv of Richard Marius's Martin Luther. The Christian between God and Death (Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard U.P., 1999; pp. xv+542. 19.95 £) can easily be summed up: why was Luther [...]

Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany, by Michael Toch (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003; pp. 344. 57.50 £). Michael Toch's scholarly career has focused on south-east Germany, principally Bavaria and Franconia. Since [...]

by Peter Blickle (Stuttgart: Eugen Ulmer, 2000; pp. 264. DM34.80). Among the student textbooks in German on the Reformation, those by Bernd Moeller and Peter Blickle have over the last [...]

Although Hans-Joachim Kohler's comprehensive collection of Reformation pamphlets is available on microfiche, there has been little systematic attempt so far to analyse and categorize lay responses to the Reformers' message. [...]

In his massive and exhaustively researched Munich dissertation, now published as Herzog Georg von Bayern-Landshut und seine Reichspolitik. Moglichkeiten und Grenzen reichsfurstlicher Politik im wittelsbachisch-habsburgischen Spannungsfeld zwischen 1470 und 1505 [...]

Carl C. Christensen, already well known for his study Art and the Reformation in Germany (1979), sets out in the present essay, Princes and Propaganda. Electoral Saxon Art of the [...]

Investigations into the political and cultural identity of medieval Germany have traditionally been hampered by the very diffuseness of the Empire as a polity, far removed from state formation, and [...]

A curiously discrepant air hangs over the essays in Luther in seiner Zeit: Personlichkeit und Wirken des Reformators, ed. Martin Greschat and Gunther Lottes (Stuttgart/Berlin: Kohlhammer Verlag, 1997; pp. 127. [...]

Historians of the seventeenth-century crisis and of revolutions in early modern Europe have hitherto paid little attention to an uprising which was in both its extent and its ambitions potentially [...]