Peasants War, insurgency, and uprising are applied today to an event that was labeled and conceptualized differently by its contemporaries in 1525. Starting from how hard it was for the participants to find a suitable name for their project, the study analyzes the contemporary controversy in interpreting the uprising in the writings of the insurgents and in the historiography of the aristocracy.

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Benjamin Heidenreich, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg