But since they have deliberately and sacrilegiously abandoned their obedience, and in addition have dared to oppose their lords, they have thereby forfeited body and soul, as perfidious, perjured, lying, disobedient wretches and scoundrels are wont to do.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants

Date / Period

1525

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Controversial

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/luther-peasants.asp

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