Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was ...

(The Conversation) — Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was the start of the German Peasants’ War ...

By the end of 1525, the great princes had restored order: The Peasants’ War was over. Along with the peasants, who never saw the world they had imagined, the biggest losers were the clergy.

In 1525, the German artist Albrecht Dürer designed ... caustic verdict on the authorities’ savage response to the Peasants’ War that convulsed large parts of Germany in 1524-25.