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This book is a collection of writings by early Reformation radicals which illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking.The texts are drawn from the period 1521-27and centre on the major upheaval of those years for German society, the Peasants��s War of 1524-26.The thinkers represented -Muntzer,Karlstadt,Grebel ,Hut,Denck,and others-differed on important theological issues.Yet the radicals all rejected the Reformation of the magisterial reformers as serving the interests of society��s elite.They advocated a strategy of Reformation through direct action from below,a sweeping transformation of society to the benefit of the lay commoner and the local community.With the start of the Peasants��War.raidcals divided over the issue of the legitimacy of force.This devistion shaped the ways in which they confronted the failure of the Peasants��War as wess as the new strategies for survival which they developed in its afermath.Appended to the texts are a number of political of the Peasants��War.These documents illustrate ways in which the radicals contributed to the revolution.and how the uprising itself led to greater clarity in the political theory of the radical Reformation.