Peasant Fires

“Deftly tells the story” of the murder of a peasant turned preacher in Germany “finding in it a foreshadowing of peasant uprisings in the 16th century.” — New York Times Book Review In 1476, an illiterate German street musician had a vision of the Virgin Mary and began to preach a radical social message that attracted thousands of followers—and antagonized the church. The drummer was burned at the stake. This swiftly moving narrative of his rise and fall paints a vivid portrait of fifteenth-cent