Produced by Jeannie Howse, Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this | | text. For a complete list, please see the end of this | | document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * GERMAN CULTURE PAST AND PRESENT BY ERNEST BELFORT BAX AUTHOR OF "JEAN PAUL MARAT," "THE RELIGION OF SOCIALISM," "THE ETHICS OF SOCIALISM," "THE ROOTS OF REALITY," ETC., ETC. LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. _First published in 1915_ [_All rights reserved_] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTORY:--SITUATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 7 I. THE REFORMATION MOVEMENT 65 II. POPULAR LITERATURE OF THE TIME 85 III. THE FOLKLORE OF REFORMATION GERMANY 99 IV. THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN TOWN 114 V. COUNTRY AND TOWN AT THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES 122 VI. THE REVOLT OF THE KNIGHTHOOD 154 VII. GENERAL SIGNS OF RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL REVOLT 174 VIII. THE GREAT RISING OF THE PEASANTS AND THE ANABAPTIST MOVEMENT 183 IX. POST-MEDIAEVAL GERMANY 229 X. MODERN GERMAN CULTURE 263 PREFACE