Volkswagen Fellowship Symposium 2014 - “Image and Text in Propaganda during the Upper Austrian Peasant War 1626″

Malte Griesse, Harvard/Konstanz: The "peasant war" of 1626 was one of the peaks of broad popular resistance against counter-reformation in Upper Austria (the Ländlein ob der Enns). Already in 1619 the Protestant Estates had allied with the "rebellious" Bohemians against Emperor Ferdinand II's re-catholicization efforts. Therefore, in 1620, in compensation for military assistance in the Catholic League, the country was mortgaged to the Bavarians. In the first years the Bavarian steward Adam vo..