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The Reformation · May 1525
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants
Martin Luther · 1483–1546
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What it is
A call to the princes to stab, smite, and slay the rebels, published as the risings were already being crushed and tens of thousands killed.
Why it lasted
Catalogued because it must be known: the most damaging thing Luther ever wrote, which cost the Reformation the loyalty of the peasantry and which he never retracted.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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