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Lecture

After the uprising of 1525: insights into rural society in the lordship of Ivano in Trentino

In September 1525, the rebellion reached the periphery of the county of Tyrol. Very little is known about the uprising in the lordship of Ivano in Valsugana/Suganertal, in which the administrator of the castle lordship was killed after a clash with peasants.

A document from the Tyrolean Provincial Archives that has so far escaped research on the subject of the Peasants’ War gives us an insight into peasant society. In the “Inventory of the goods of those banned for sedition”, the livelihoods (buildings, furnishings, tools, crops, arable land, etc.) of peasants were recorded, which were confiscated by a contingent of notaries following the uprising in 1525. The analysis of this source is at the centre of the explanations.

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