Talk:Knights' War

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maybe it should be mentioned, that this Revolt is called in german "Pfälzischer Ritteraufstand" (which is translated something like "Palatinate Knight's Revolt")? -- Hartmann Schedel ^Prost 22:10, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

not a good idea supplying the original "real" name"? -- Hartmann Schedel ^cheers 21:38, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The German name is no more "real" than any other; WP is not a German lesson; throwing in foreign words is just adding pseudo-knowledge to real history. On the contrary, this article needs a bit of copy-editing by a native English speaker to remove some remaining Germanisms, such as "further evolutions" and "laid on him the Ban of the Empire". Wegesrand (talk) 11:10, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs extensive revisions, editing and sources

This article is very poorly cited. The first two existing citations are incomplete and only relate to the introduction of arquebus and musket into Europe. The citations for these two are also incomplete, as Andrade 2016 isn't clear in the slightest (though it is likely his Gunpowder Age), and I still can't figure out Arnold 2001.

The only other sources cited in this essay are David Wilson's History of England, which is used in an entirely useless paragraph about Henry VII, and Friedrich Engels. Engels' interpretation of the Peasant Wars, as he called them, is seriously out of date with modern understandings of both this event in particular, and historical interpretation in general.

The two further reading sections are useful, but again, both seriously out of date. A nineteenth century history of Germany in the Middle Ages, and a 1958 book, that is never cited directly, are not enough for the amount of text in the article.

Several sections should be trimmed, such as those surrounding the Eternal Peace of 1495.

Important recent works on the Knight's Revolt (including important historiographical debate on whether this qualifies as a revolt) are Ninness, German Imperial Knights (2021) and Zmora, State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany (1997).

In all, I would argue the article needs a serious overhaul, or at least more extensive and relevant citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmb8af (talk • contribs) 03:19, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]