With threefold horrible sins against God and men have these peasants loaded themselves, for which they have deserved a manifold death of body and soul.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants

Date / Period

1525

Category

Controversial

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/luther-peasants.asp

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