The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer

"You will be gripped and inspired by this exciting story–I couldn’t put it down."
–Lyndal Roper, author of Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

On the 500th anniversary of the German Peasant Wars, a brilliant portrait of Thomas Munzter: radical millenarian preacher, revolutionary and iconoclast

‘The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.’ These were the words of Thomas Müntzer at the head of the massed ranks of a peasant army in the year 1525. Ranged against him were the might of the princes of the German Nation. How did Müntzer, the son of a coin maker from central Germany, rise in just a few short years to… Keep Reading