The fight for equality begins in the streets. From the internationally
bestselling author of The Order of the Day: Eric Vuillard once again
takes us behind the scenes at a moment when history was being written.
The history of inequality is a long and terrible one.
And it's
not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, The War of the Poor tells
the story of a brutal episode from history, not as well known as tales
of other popular uprisings, but one that deserves to be told.
Sixteenth-century Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the
powerful and the privileged.
Peasants, the poor living in towns,
who are still being promised that equality will be granted to them in
heaven, begin to ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on
earth?There follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas
Muntzer: a complex and controversial figure, who sided with neither
Martin Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Muntzer addressed the poor
directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved the
poor seemed to be on the side of the rich.
Eric Vuillard tells
the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light on
the times in which he lived - a moment when Europe was in flux. As in
his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, The Order of the
Day, Vuillard 'leaves nothing sleeping in the shadows' (L'OBS).
The War of the Poor - Eric Vuillard
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