Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War

Name: Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
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Dimensions	15.6 × 24 cm
Format
language1
Pages	544
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year Published	2025-2-13
Imprint	Basic Books
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1399818023
About The Author	Lyndal Roper is the first woman to hold the prestigious Regius Chair at Oxford University. She is one of the most respected scholars of early modern history on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the winner of the Gerda Henkel Prize (2016), and her previous books include Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany; Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion, and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe; The Witch in the Western Imagination; and The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg.
	A riveting account of a seismic event in German history which conveys a real sense of why so many ordinary people thought they could change the world. Lyndal Roper writes beautifully and displays a compassionate understanding for the protagonists on both sides of this complex and bloody struggle
Other text	A definitive history of the German Peasants' War, the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution, by award-winning historian Lyndal Roper.