The peasants had economic grievances, to be sure, but they also drew inspiration from the message of freedom, or “Fryheit” in ...

Few if any men have changed the course of history like Martin Luther. In less than ten years, this fevered German monk plunged a knife into the heart of an empire that had ruled for a thousand ...

(Martin Luther ... Finally he's called before the German imperial parliament, in the city of Worms, and told he must recant. Risking torture and execution, Luther nevertheless refused and ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution ...