Peasants, Wars and Evil Coins: Towards a 'Monetary Turn' in Explaining the 'Revolution of 1525'.
Is there anything left to say about the Peasants' War of 1524/25? This article takes up that challenge by demonstrating how the 'monetary turn' evident in the later decades of the fifteenth century and early decades of the sixteenth century explains an often-overlooked item amongst peasants' complai...
| Publicado en: | German History Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 1 - 24 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2025
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