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16th century revolutionary’s words resonate today: Review of new book on Thomas Muntzer

Originally published: Red Flag on March 14. 2025 by Sandra Bloodworth (more by Red Flag) | (Posted Mar 18, 2025)

Andrew Drummond’s marvellous new book, The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Muntzer: The life and times of an early German Revolutionary, published by Verso, is “the definitive” biography of the sixteenth century revolutionary, in the words of one Marxist historian.
‘The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary’ – book review

Originally published: Counterfire on June 6, 2024 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire) | (Posted Jun 11, 2024)

An excellent history of the sixteenth-century radical Thomas Müntzer brings the radical Reformation and the dawn of the modern era into focus, finds Dominic Alexander.