{"id":50747,"date":"2026-01-06T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50747"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:29:18","slug":"andrew-drummond-judgement-of-god-on-thomas-muntzer-the-life-and-times-of-an-early-german-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50747","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Drummond, \u201eJudgement of God on Thomas M\u00fcntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A searing, insightful portrait of a one of the most enigmatic figures of the German Reformation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did the son of a coin-maker from central Germany, Thomas M\u00fcntzer, rise in just a few short years to become one of the most feared revolutionaries in early modern Europe? Andrew Drummond charts the life and times of the man Martin Luther denounced as a \u2018Ravening Wolf\u2019 and \u2018False Prophet\u2019. Far from the bloodthirsty devil of legend, he was a man of considerable learning and principle, deeply sympathetic to the misery of the peasantry and the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At last \u2013 a new account for our times of Thomas M\u00fcntzer, theologian and revolutionary. Drummond brings M\u00fcntzer and his world vividly to life. He shows us just why M\u00fcntzer hated Luther, and how he came to take up arms. What did it mean to be a revolutionary in sixteenth-century Germany? \u2013 Drummond shows us. You will be gripped and inspired by this exciting story \u2013 I couldn\u2019t put it down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oxford, and author of Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Posterity has endorsed not just Luther\u2019s victory but also his determined character assassination of his rival. Andrew Drummond\u2019s scholarly but eminently readable, thoughtful, thorough and at times witty biography of M\u00fcntzer redresses the balance for English-speaking audiences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Professor Michael Russell, University of Glasgow<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Among the famous figures associated with 16th century Germany, that of religious thinker and social revolutionary Thomas M\u00fcntzer deserves to be far better known. Andy Drummond&#8217;s excellent, brilliantly written and entertaining, new biography delves deep into the archival material to draw out the history of a radical whose life is often obscured by propaganda and myth. As we approach the 500th anniversary of M\u00fcntzer&#8217;s execution, this book is the definitive account of his life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Martin Empson, author of &#8216;Kill all the Gentlemen&#8217;: Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A blisteringly good book about personal enmity, and the difference between revolution and reform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Daniel Brooks,&nbsp; Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Drummond&#8217;s marvellous romp of a biography &#8211; part jolly Simon Winder-like deep dive into 16th-century Germania, part sagacious reflection on the Reformation in the manner of Diarmaid MacCulloch &#8211; aims to free M\u00fcntzer from his detractors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stuart Jeffries,&nbsp; Spectator<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Drummond&#8217;s biography of this volatile and subversive thinker is both highly readable and carefully researched.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Peter Marshall,&nbsp; Literary Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Andrew Drummond&#8217;s skeptical and compassionate biography documents a life that is as much a warning as an inspiration to the modern left. Its evocative, exquisitely detailed panorama of Reformation Germany leads us to reflect on the tangled links between religious zeal and the successful exercise of political power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Michael Ledger-Lomas,&nbsp; Jacobin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Full of clear, crisp insights that helps us understand the obvious yet surprising impact technology has had on art.<br>Perceptive and highly readable &#8230; in Drummond\u2019s deft hands, M\u00fcntzer\u2019s story testifies to the extraordinary dynamism and fervour of the early years of the German Reformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bridget Heal,&nbsp; Church Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An engaging book that gives a tidy primer on Thomas M\u00fcntzer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Greta Gaffin,&nbsp; National Catholic Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Drummond\u2019s skeptical and compassionate biography documents a life that is as much a warning as an inspiration to the modern left. Its evocative, exquisitely detailed panorama of Reformation Germany leads us to reflect on the tangled links between religious zeal and the successful exercise of political power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Michael Ledger-Lomas,&nbsp; Jacobin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Drummond makes a virtue of the scant information available&#8230;Those interested in the political and religious struggles that shaped the modern world will delight in this well-researched case study in zeal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Drummond tackles the most famous European religious radical of the early Reformation. Working with relatively few sources for a full biography, Drummond still offers a helpful account of Muntzer\u2019s thinking in an admirable combination of clarity and detail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Morning Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>384 pages \/ February 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-ugradnja wp-block-embed-ugradnja\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/2993-the-dreadful-history-and-judgement-of-god-on-thomas-muntzer\">The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas M\u00fcntzer<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Drummond-Muntzer-book.jpg?fit=287%2C441&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50749,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747\/revisions\/50749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}