Würgler 2013 Medien in Revolten

Arc: The Journal of the School of Religious Studies

The author in this one submission offers a review of three different books, which all seek to discuss the German Peasants' War of 1524-1525. 1. The German Peasants' War: A History in Documents. Eds. and trans. Tom Scott and Bob Scribner. New Jersey and London: Humanities Press International, Inc., 1991. ISBN 0-391-03681-5. Pp. xvii+355. 2. The Radical Reformation. Ed. and trans. Michael G. Baylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-521-37073-6. Pp. xxxvii+295. 3. The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods. By James M. Stayer. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-7735-0842-2. Pp. x+227.

Comparative politics, 1976

Social History, 2019

International Review of Social History, 1997

This paper addresses the theme of Violence and Social Change from the perspective of peasant resistance to the beginning of Revolutionary conscription. The events in question were a series of riots which erupted in the district of St.Affrique in the Aveyron in March 1793 in response to the levée de 300,000. The paper seeks to explore the internal dynamics of peasant action and the self imposed limitations on resistance. It does so by examining the interplay between traditional practices and Revolutionary innovation and highlights the peasantry's ability to adopt and adapt Revolutionary discourse to uphold their own notions of liberty and equality.

2012

The article analyses one of the most spectacular urban rebellions of the early modern Holy Roman Empire of the German nation from the perspective of local acts of communication. Led by the merchant Nikolaus Gülich, the ‘Gülich rebellion’ convulsed the free and imperial city of Cologne in the 1680s. Gülich appealed to public opinion and used media impulses within the urban community to campaign successfully against the corruption of the city council.