Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies. The Radical Reformation, 3rd ed. / / George Huntston Williams.

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• VerfasserIn: Williams, George Huntston,
• MitwirkendeR: Huntston Williams, George,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1516 p.)

George Williams' monumental The Radical Reformation has been an essential reference work for historians of early modern Europe, narrating in rich, interpretative detail the interconnected stories of radical groups operating at the margins of the mainline Reformation. In its scope—spanning all of Europe from Spain to Poland, from Denmark to Italy—and its erudition, The Radical Reformation is without peer. Now in paperback format, Williams' magnum opus should be considered for any university-level course on the Reformation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to First Edition -- Introduction to Second Edition -- Introduction to Third Edition -- 1. Reformed Catholicity: An Evangelical Interlude -- 2. Mysticism and Sacramentism along the Rhine to 1530 -- 3. Lutheran Spiritualists: Carlstadt and Müntzer -- 4. The Great Peasants’ War, 1524–1525 -- 5. The Eucharistic Controversy Divides the Reformation, 1523–1526 -- 6. Rise of the Swiss Brethren as the First Anabaptists of the Era -- 7. South German and Austrian Anabaptism, 1525–1527 -- 8. The Schleitheim Confession of 1527: Swiss and South German Developments to 1531 -- 9. Radical Christianity in the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Margraviate of Moravia, 1526–1529 -- 10. Speyer and Strassburg, 1529: Magisterial and Radical Reformations in a Representative Urban Republic -- 11. Unusual Doctrines and Institutions of the Radical Reformation -- 12. The Spread of Melchiorite Anabaptism in The Netherlands and North Germany to 1534 -- 13. Münster, 1531–1535 -- 14. The Regrouping of Forces after the Münster Debacle: Mennonitism -- 15. Sacramentists and Anabaptists in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to 1548 -- 16. The Hutterites, 1529–1540 -- 17. Anabaptism in Middle Germany, 1527–1538 -- 18. Definitive Encounter between Evangelical Anabaptism and Evangelical Spiritualism -- 19. Spiritualism and Rigorism among the Netherlanders and Lower Germans, 1540/43–1568 -- 20. Marriage, Family Life, and Divorce in the Radical Reformation -- 21. Waldensians, 1510–1532; Italian Anabaptists, 1525–1533; Italian Evangelicals, 1530–1542 -- 22. The Radical Reformation in Italy and the Rhaetian Republic (Graubünden) -- 23. Calvin and the Radical Reformation -- 24. Radical Italian Evangelicals in Swiss Exile -- 25. The Slavic Reformation in Poland and Lithuania, 1548–65 -- 26. The Hutterites in Moravia, 1542–1578 -- 27. The Antipedobaptist, Anti-Nicene Minor Churches, 1565–1574 -- 28. The Rise of Unitarianism in the Magyar Reformed Synod in Transylvania -- 29. Sectarianism and Spiritualism in Poland, 1572–1582 -- 30. Developments in The Netherlands, 1566–1578, and in England -- 31. German and Swiss Anabaptism, Spiritualism, and Evangelical Rationalism, 1542–1578 -- 32. Law and Gospel: Implicit Separatist Ecumenicity -- 33. The Radical Reformation: A Comprehensive Perspective on the Shaping of Classical Protestantism -- Bibliography -- Index of Source Documents -- Index of Creeds, Confessions, Catechisms, Canons, and Articles of Faith, Conscience, and Petition (Corporate and Personal) -- Index of Colloquies, Councils, Debates, and Synods -- Index of Scripture References -- Subject Index