First published in 1915
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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[INTRODUCTORY:—SITUATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY]7
I.[THE REFORMATION MOVEMENT]65
II.[POPULAR LITERATURE OF THE TIME]85
III.[THE FOLKLORE OF REFORMATION GERMANY]99
IV.[THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN TOWN]114
V.[COUNTRY AND TOWN AT THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES]122
VI.[THE REVOLT OF THE KNIGHTHOOD]154
VII.[GENERAL SIGNS OF RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL REVOLT]174
VIII.[THE GREAT RISING OF THE PEASANTS AND THE ANABAPTIST MOVEMENT]183
IX.[POST-MEDIÆVAL GERMANY]229
X.[MODERN GERMAN CULTURE]263

PREFACE