A companion to Anabaptism and spiritualism, 1521-1700 / edited by John D. Roth and James M. Stayer.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Roth, John D., 1960-; Stayer, James M.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (602 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of current scholarship on Anabaptist and Spiritualist history and theology from 1521 to 1700. Since the last half of the twentieth century, the historiography of the Radical Reformation has been the focus of vigorous and creative debate. The volume–broadly cast in terms of geographic scope and topical coverage–carefully untangles the fluid boundaries of Spiritualism and Anabaptism in Early Modern European history. In addition to a narrative summary, each chapter also provides a bibliography of sources and current scholarship, and concludes with suggestions for future research. This handbook will serve a generation of students as the standard reference work on Anabaptism and Spiritualism. Contributors include: Geoffrey Dipple, Michael Driedger, Hans-Jürgen Goertz, Brad Gregory, Sigrun Haude, Ralf Klötzer, John D. Rempel, John D. Roth, Martin Rothkegel, C. Arnold Snyder, James Stayer, Piet Visser, and R. Emmet McLaughlin. Originally published in hardcover

Table of Contents

Karlstadt, Müntzer, and the Reformation of the commoners, 1521-1525 / Hans-Jürgen Goertz -- Swiss Anabaptism: the beginnings, 1523-1525 / C. Arnold Snyder -- Swiss-south German Anabaptism, 1526-1540 / James M. Stayer -- Spritualism: Schwenckfeld and Franck and their early modern resonances / Emmet McLaughlin -- Anabaptism in Moravia and Silesia / Martin Rothkegel -- The Melchiorites and Münster / Ralf Klötzer -- The spiritualist Anabaptists / Geoffrey Dipple -- Mennonites and Doopsgezinden in the Netherlands, 1535-1700 / Piet Visser -- Marpeck and later Swiss Brethren, 1540-1700 / John D. Roth -- Anabaptist religious literature and hymnody / John Rempel -- Gender roles and perspectives among Anabaptist and spiritualist groups / Sigrun Haude -- Anabaptist martyrdom : imperatives, experience, and memorialization / Brad S. Gregory -- Anabaptists and the early modern state / Michael Driedger.