A panoramic depiction of this conflict was painted in the 1980s on a 123 foot-long canvas created by a textile combine in Sursk. Scholars are unsure whether the phrase “omnia sunt communia” was said by a figure captured during this conflict. Popular accounts of this conflict began with the Countess of Lupfen ordering a hunt for snail shells. A song about the leader of the Black Company during this conflict notes how he carried a banner bearing an image of a shoe and an untied lace. This conflict exemplified “the worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme party” according to an 1850 history of it by Friedrich Engels. The Twelve Articles written during this conflict may have been influenced by Thomas Müntzer. For 10 points, Martin Luther denounced the “murderous” and “thieving hordes” who carried out what 1520s revolt in Swabia? ■END■
ANSWER: German Peasants’ War [or German Peasants’ Revolt; or Deutscher Bauernkrieg; accept The Peasant War in Germany; reject “English Peasants’ Revolt”] (In the 1980s, East Germany commissioned a massive depiction of the German Peasants’ War. Thomas Müntzer was said to have replied “omnia sunt communia” to his torturers, who interrogated his motivations. The song “Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer Haufen” is about Florian Geyer.)
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