The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . aufff nJ>« JJautcn/ fo fi^iefamfn. Fac-Simile of the Title Page of Broadside Cort- UNY, the Fruehn Article of the Peasants, A. D., 1525. /p ETURN-Vy^ iug o u c emore to the per-iod of the Refor-m a t i o n , twoother historicalepisodes are re-called, which inthe course of acentury and ahalf were des-tined to exerciseconsiderable in-fluence upon
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . aufff nJ>« JJautcn/ fo fi^iefamfn. Fac-Simile of the Title Page of Broadside Cort- UNY, the Fruehn Article of the Peasants, A. D., 1525. /p ETURN-Vy^ iug o u c emore to the per-iod of the Refor-m a t i o n , twoother historicalepisodes are re-called, which inthe course of acentury and ahalf were des-tined to exerciseconsiderable in-fluence upon theexodus o f theGermans fromthe Fatherland,and the futurecomplexion o four Common-wealth. The ii6 The Pen7isylvama-German Society. £rst of these movements, the so-called Peasants War(1524-26) was an uprising of the masses in centraland southern Germany in the interests of a univer-sal democracy. It ended in their defeat and an in-crease of the burdens of the peasantry, and we maysay their further enslavement. The other episode, a religious movement, under icgmn5tUcbmt)n6 rccl>jtcnbaiwt ^mckelaUcrbauricbafftt>nd bindafdfcii licbcn obcrkcften x>onn wclcbcnffclicbbc rcbit)crtx)crm€i^ ncn. Title Page of the Twelve Articles of 1525. the leadership of KnipperdoUing and Jo
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