The Revolt of the Peasants

The peasants agenda for social and economic reform explicitly echoed this methodological constraint of the religious reformers. A list of principles issued in mulhausen said that judgments should be made according to the standard of justice in the bible. Another aspect of the ideology driving the peasants revolt can be connected to humanism. The peasants war occurred a scant decade after machiavelli was writing his discourses based on the roman historian livy, expounding on his theories of republican government. Close study of ancient literature had confronted the late mediaeval world with the admirable achievements of republican rome republicanism modelled on the example of rome is going to be a factor in political upheavals going forward.