In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

The preservation of a strict social hierarchy rests very often on the enforcement of correct modes of address. In America ...

→Sword found in 19th-century German cellar is something much older ... leading to the eventual death of 100,000 in the Peasants’ War, according to Britannica. Despite kicking off the ...

The German Peasants' War - which happened exactly 500 years ago - saw peasants across Germany, Switzerland and Austria rise up against oppressive lords in a bid for freedom and social reform. This was ...

Fritz Wagner was a German still life and genre painter. Known for his warm-hued paintings of tavern scenes, revelrous drinkers, and card players, Wagner dressed Bavarian peasants in period costumes ...