"How did Thomas Muntzer, the son of a coin maker from central Germany, rise in just a few short years to become one of the most feared revolutionaries in early modern Europe? Andrew Drummond charts the life and times of the man Martin Luther denounced asa 'Ravening Wolf' and 'False Prophet'. Drummond shows us Muntzer as a human being. Far from the bloodthirsty devil of legend, he was a man of considerable learning and principle, deeply sympathetic to the misery of the peasantry and the poor. In his shortlife - he was beheaded at thirty-five - Muntzer promised to fundamentally upend German society"--