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Title: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: commissarmoody on July 31, 2021, 01:28:49 AM

I am looking for information about the German Knights Revolt of 1522-23.
Books, webpages and or documentaries. I found out about it while browser post about the Peasants war, and found out it's finally act. Took place in my old stomping grounds of Landstuhl.

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: Atheling on July 31, 2021, 10:02:56 AM

I'm sure there's an Osprey Man at Arms book that covers the Peasants Revolt. In fact I think I have it but much of my old stuff is in boxes and it would be very difficult to i/find and ii/ dig out.

Have you checked the Osprey site?

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: commissarmoody on July 31, 2021, 10:36:39 AM

Thank you, I have the Osprey and Army of the Swabian league 1525 from helion&company. Just looking for more stuff about the people involved in the Knights Revolt a precursor to the Peasants war.

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: John Boadle on July 31, 2021, 11:13:10 AM

If you can make out German text, these people have several books on this sort of period: https://www.zinnfigur.com/en/Books-Media/Zeughaus-Verlag/Armies-and-Weapons/

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: Atheling on July 31, 2021, 12:01:53 PM

Quote from: commissarmoody on July 31, 2021, 10:36:39 AM

Thank you, I have the Osprey and Army of the Swabian league 1525 from helion&company. Just looking for more stuff about the people involved in the Knights Revolt a precursor to the Peasants war.

I suspect that your going to be reading a lot of German texts.

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: Doom Beard 78 on July 31, 2021, 12:09:40 PM

I bought  The German Peasants' War: A History in Documents, many years ago. As the title implies , its a collection of contemporary accounts. Its mostly focussed on the social and political  causes of the war but there a section in the tactics,

I have yet to read it so can't comment on how useful it may be .    google books has it

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_German_Peasants_War.html?id=hwVoAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: commissarmoody on August 01, 2021, 08:11:00 AM

Thanks! I'll check out Zeughaus-Verlag/Armies-and-Weapons/ series. I have seen a few in English So time to see if they make the Peasants war ones in English as well.
And thank you doombeard, that book also look interesting.

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: bluechi on August 01, 2021, 11:20:26 PM

https://dewiki.de/Lexikon/Wandereisen-Holzschnitte_von_1523

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: commissarmoody on August 02, 2021, 08:29:05 PM

Quote from: bluechi on August 01, 2021, 11:20:26 PM

https://dewiki.de/Lexikon/Wandereisen-Holzschnitte_von_1523

Danke

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: FreakyFenton on August 04, 2021, 06:38:40 PM

Not certain but I believe Fred and Liliane Funken also have a book on the armour usedand outfits. And perhaps this which seems to be the most recent of Wikipedia's sources. From 1985, Hitchcock, William Robertson (1958). The Background of the Knight's Revolt, 1522-1523.

Title: Re: Looking for information on the German "Knights Revolt"
Post by: commissarmoody on August 04, 2021, 08:52:29 PM

Thanks freakyFenton. Added to my list of books.