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Communal Reformation and Peasant Piety: The Peasant Reformation and Its Late Medieval Origins

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Symposium Reformation and Revolution: From the Sacral Community to the Common Man
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1987

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I want to thank M., David Lueblce for the translation of this essay. A slightly modified German version will appear in the Festschriftfiir Karl Bosl, ed. Ferdinand Seibt, Munich,1988Google Scholar.

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2. Support for the interpretations presented here is to be found primarily in Blickle, Peter, Gemeindereformation: Die Menschen des 16. Jahrhunderts auf dem Weg zum Heil (Munich, 1985; Studienausgabe, 1987), 2476.Google Scholar

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