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The Holy Roman Empire

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By Peter Wilson, Lyndal Roper, David Luebke, Ulinka Rublack
| Five Books
Before we get on to the books, can you just very briefly say what the Holy Roman Empire was and why it’s still an important thing to study now? The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was a unique political entity that is not well known about, even in Germany.
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Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War

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By Lyndal Roper
| Literary Hub
I began my book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War, by cycling! First I cycled from Mühlhausen to Frankenhausen, the route that the followers of the revolutionary leader Thomas Müntzer took on their way to the battle where most of them would be slain. I had no map and got hopelessly lost but that taught me the lie of the land. Everywhere I saw relics of the war—a pretty pink landed house which had an oddly deep ditch, for example.
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How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

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By Lyndal Roper
| Literary Hub
The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution. Like a vast contagion it spread from southwest Germany through Württemberg, Swabia, the Allgäu, Franconia, Thuringia, and Saxony to Alsace in what is now France, Austria, and Switzerland. Peasants massed in armed bands in one region, then another, and rebellion would break out even in areas far away.
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