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Chapter 7
Politics and Power: Villages
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From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)
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An Abbot Negotiates with his Rural Subjects—Weingarten (Upper Swabia) (1432)
The Grievances of Rural Subjects—Kempten (Upper Swabia) (1492)
Rural Tasks (1502)
Village Violence, Imperial Justice—Wolfisheim (Alsace) (1524/25)
Satirical Depiction of a Lewd Peasant (1526)
Image Series: Rural Festival (1535)
A Rural Commune Organizes its own Affairs—Ingenried (Bavaria) (1549)
Rural Trades – The Farmer (1568)
A Commune’s Oath of Loyalty—Herbolzheim (Upper Rhine) (16th Century)
Codifying Customary Law—Germersheim (Palatinate) (16th Century)
Caspar Othmayr, Peasant Dance (16th century)
Dancing Peasants (late 16th Century)
Folk Song: Es flog ein klein Waldvögelein (c. 1610)
The Harvest (c. 1620)
Functional Model of the Late Medieval Village
Government of a Late Medieval Village
Politics and Power: Cities
Religious Life and the Reformations: Before Reform