Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen

Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen

" . . . lively and intellectually stimulating . . . " ―Speculum

"Wunderli . . . has lucidly reconstructed a controversial conflict in 15th-century south-central Germany. . . . this engaging narrative t…

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