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- Title
After the Peasants' War: Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein Fights for Her Property.
- Authors
OCKER, CHRISTOPHER
- Abstract
Historians are only beginning to appreciate fully the political and social impact ' the aftermath of the German Peasants' War. The case ' Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein, widow ' Sebastian von Fuchstein, a Kaufbeuren lawyer suspected ofAnabaptism and exiled at the end ' the war, sheds light on the role of middle-rank nobility in the process of post-war reordering. Her eventual success in a conflict with her violent cousin, Ulrich Schweikert, a knight in the service ' the Abbot ofKempten, draws attention to middle-rank competition in the Upper Allgau, where historians have emphasized the tenacity of peasants and the long-term winnings of princes. Her case also illustrates the flux of religious identities at ground level in the early Reformation, among lay people whose interest in the religious controversy was secondary to, perhaps inseparable from, family business.
- Subjects
GERMANY; REFORMATION; 16TH century church history; PEASANTS' War, 1524-1525; CHRISTIAN identity; HISTORY
- Publication
Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 4, p141
- ISSN
0034-429X
- Publication type
Article