Quiz: The Peasant War in Germany

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. Whose conception of the Peasant War, which overestimated the knights, does Riazanov contrast with Marx and Engels’s? Bebel’s Bakunin’s Kautsky’s Lassalle’s
2. In which imperial city did Muenzer publish an inciting paper and later take power? Mühlhausen Nuremberg Augsburg Wittenberg
3. Who was the shepherd and musician of Niklashausen who led a movement in 1476? Jäcklein Rohrbach Joss Fritz, the leader of the Union Shoe Hans Boeheim, “the Drum-Beater” or “the Piper” Thomas Muenzer
4. From whose history did Engels take all his material on the peasant revolts and Muenzer? Janssen’s Ranke’s Mommsen’s Zimmermann’s
5. Whose chiliastic writings were a main subject of Muenzer’s studies, according to Engels? Joachim of Calabria (Joachim of Floris) John Calvin Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam Bernard of Clairvaux (Saint Bernard)
6. How does Engels distinguish the revolution of 1848 from the Peasant War, despite the analogies? 1848 was a religious war fought out between the Catholic and the Protestant states 1848 was a pure victory, while the Peasant War ended in defeat 1848 belonged to Europe’s progress as a whole, and its defeat was not final 1848 involved no princes at all, being purely a struggle of workers and bourgeois
7. Which prince, much praised by Protestant historians for his piety, assembled a corps against the Thuringian peasants? Frederick the Wise The Elector Palatine Ulrich of Württemberg Landgrave Philipp of Hesse
8. Who commanded the Swabian League’s troops, called “the Alba of the Peasant War”? Duke Anthony of Lorraine Landgrave Philipp of Hesse Charles V Georg Truchsess of Waldburg
9. What were the Twelve Articles? Luther’s theses against indulgences of 1517 The imperial constitution of the Diet of Worms The peasants’ programme of March 1525 The Swabian League’s terms of surrender
10. What happened to Luther as the movement grew, according to Engels? He dropped the popular elements for the burghers, nobles and princes He left Germany for Switzerland and withdrew from all political questions He became more radical, joined Muenzer and preached revolt against the princes He was arrested and executed by the Emperor for his heresies and his defence of the peasants

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