Communal Reformation and Peasant Piety: The Peasant Reformation and Its Late Medieval Origins
Communal Reformation and Peasant Piety: The Peasant Reformation and Its Late Medieval Origins
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公社改革和农民虔诚:农民改革及其中世纪晚期的起源
DOI:
10.1017/s0008938900012073
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发表时间:
1987
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通讯作者:
P. Blickle
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P. Blickle
UNTIL recently, the theme of "peasant Reformation" received little attention as an object of research within the historically minded humanities and social sciences, including the disciplines of both ecclesiastical and "profane" history. The opinion of one prominent Reformation historian, Bernd Moeller, is symptomatic for the view that the numerically most important group among late medieval and early modern social estates—namely the peasantry—was entirely irrelevant to the problem of defining and interpreting the process of Reformation. "In relation to the Reformation, the peasants," in Moeller's judgement, "appeared to remain locked in the timelessness of their local and nature-bound concerns, as though deaf to the new teachings —they had, after all, virtually no access to education." Moeller's appraisal has received top billing: it appeared in his contribution, a history of the Reformation, to the ten volume Deutsche Geschichte.