Introduction and Acknowledgments

Translator's Note

Chapter One: Communalism as an Organizational Principle between Medieval and Modern Times

Chapter Two: Memmingen -- a Center of the Reformation

Chapter Three: From Resentment to Legal Autonomy: The Fight Against Spiritual Sanctions in the Swiss Confederation

Chapter Four: "A great, unprecedented upheaval of the Common Man throughout the German lands" -- the Revolution of 1525 as an Event

Chapter Five: The Function of Diets in the Peasants' War

Chapter Six: The Reformation in the City and Territory of Erfurt: A Paradigmatic Case

Chapter Seven: The Divine Law of the Peasants and the Divine Justice of the Reformers

Chapter Eight: Freedom and Justice: Ethical Questions to Theologians of the Reformation in Germany

Chapter Nine: The Political Incapacitation of the Peasantry: Critique and Revision of a Hypothesis

Chapter Ten: The Social Dialectics of the Reformation Movement

Places of Original Publication

Bibliography

Indices

Index of Places

Index of Subjects

Index of Names