German History in Documents and Images
    • English
    • Deutsch
  • GHDI Extra
  • The Project
  • GHDI Extra
  • The Project
    About the Project Editors GHI Project Team Sponsors and Partners Project History Terms and Conditions
  • Search
  • English
  • Deutsch
  • 1500-1648
  • 1648-1815
  • 1815-1866
  • 1866-1890
  • 1890-1918
  • 1918/19-1933
  • 1933-1945
  • 1945-1961
  • 1961-1989
  • 1990-2023
Content Notice: This site includes sources you may find offensive or even harmful. Learn more...
Dismiss✕
Chapter 7

Politics and Power: Villages

  • Home
  • From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500-1648)
  • Chapter (7/15)

Sources

  1. An Abbot Negotiates with his Rural Subjects—Weingarten (Upper Swabia) (1432)

  2. The Grievances of Rural Subjects—Kempten (Upper Swabia) (1492)

  3. Rural Tasks (1502)

  4. Village Violence, Imperial Justice—Wolfisheim (Alsace) (1524/25)

  5. Satirical Depiction of a Lewd Peasant (1526)

  6. Image Series: Rural Festival (1535)

  7. A Rural Commune Organizes its own Affairs—Ingenried (Bavaria) (1549)

  8. Rural Trades – The Farmer (1568)

  9. A Commune’s Oath of Loyalty—Herbolzheim (Upper Rhine) (16th Century)

  10. Codifying Customary Law—Germersheim (Palatinate) (16th Century)

  11. Caspar Othmayr, Peasant Dance (16th century)

  12. Dancing Peasants (late 16th Century)

  13. Folk Song: Es flog ein klein Waldvögelein (c. 1610)

  14. The Harvest (c. 1620)

  15. Functional Model of the Late Medieval Village

  16. Government of a Late Medieval Village

 
Politics and Power: Cities
Religious Life and the Reformations: Before Reform
German Historical Institute Washington Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ZEIT-Stiftung Bucerius
German History in Documents and Images
GHDI is an initiative of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC. The project was undertaken in collaboration with the Friends of the German Historical Institute, and with significant support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, and the Max Kade Foundation, New York.
Partner project
German History Intersections
Follow us
Bluesky
Follow us
Bluesky
  • Conditions of Use
  • Contact
  • Imprint
  • Data Protection
© German Historical Institute Washington, 2003-2025