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It is a book about the struggle of the German peasants against the nobles and clergy, which intensified in the years 1524-25 in the geography of the Holy Roman-Germanic Empire.
The villagers are revolting with demands such as reducing taxes, abolishing forced labor, and opening common pastures, forests and lakes to the use of the villagers.
Engels both shows the common features between the period in which he lived and the peasant war of 1525, and simplifies the sides of the 1525 period.
1) the king, the pope and the top nobles support the conservative party
2) the nobles below him, the newly developing bourgeoisie, supported Martin Luther and the reformist bourgeois party.
3) the peasants, the petty bourgeoisie and the lowest-ranking clergy supported Münzer and the revolutionary party.
One of the things that caught my attention in the book is the similarity between the personalities of Luther and Münzer and the movement they joined. I felt something similar when I read the book about Münzer's life. The determined movement of the villagers, Münzer >like< It attracts people to them. In fact, it is the peasant movement itself that created Münzer.
Engels is a strong historian. He can both bring together such small details and smell the period, and also simplify the subject without getting bogged down in these details.