New Directions in the Radical Reformation
"Thinking outside the Cages"
Published on 6. April 2023
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-90-04-54621-9 (ISBN)
Description
The eight essays in this volume approach the study of the Radical Reformation from new perspectives and challenge some of the basic assumptions of the field. Some critique and problematize the typologies developed to distinguish Reformation radicals from each other and from the Magisterial Reformers. Others apply an equally iconoclastic approach to existing scholarship on the relationship between religious change and socio-political radicalism in early modern Europe. A final group concentrate specifically on revising the history of Anabaptism by tracing its long-term development across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and recovering the lives of normal Anabaptists to write a true social history of the movement that avoids relying on the biographies and prescriptive writings of its leadership.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-54621-9 (9789004546219)
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Geoffrey Dipple is Professor of History at the University of Alberta. His publications include Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Guenzburg and the Campaign against the Friars (1996) and "Just as in the Time of the Apostles": Uses of History in the Radical Reformation (2005).
Kat Hill is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is a scholar of the Reformation and the legacies of religious change, specialising in the global histories of Mennonites.
Kat Hill is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is a scholar of the Reformation and the legacies of religious change, specialising in the global histories of Mennonites.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Geoffrey Dipple and Kat Hill
Part 1: Redefining Radical Religion in the Reformation
1 When Did Denck and Haetzer Cross the Line?
Defining Heterodoxy in the Early Reformation
?Geoffrey Dipple
2 "Worth as Much as Jeremiah and Isaiah"
Melchior Hoffman and the Prophecies of Lienhard and Ursula Jost
?Christina Moss
3 Whirlwinds, Sudden Death, and an Army of Toads
Baptist Prodigies of the 1660s
?Joshua Caleb Smith
Part 2: Radical Religion and Social Change in the Reformation
4 Monster or Homo Divinus?
Thomas Muentzer's Testimony of the First Chapter of the Gospel of Luke
?Christopher Martinuzzi
5 The Sword in the Ragged Sheath
The Motif of the Peasant Radical in Sixteenth-Century Prints
?Jonathan Trayner
Part 3: On the Boundaries of Sectarianism: Rethinking the Social Location of Anabaptism
6 "He or She, Husband or Wife Should Have Escaped the City"
Dispossession Narratives and Culpability after the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster
?Jessica C. Lowe
7 Pragmatic Toleration of Anabaptists in the Electoral Palatinate, 1650-1664
?Cory D. Davis
8 "As Far as the Records Dictate"
Archival Logics in Anabaptist Source Collections
?David Y. Neufeld
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Geoffrey Dipple and Kat Hill
Part 1: Redefining Radical Religion in the Reformation
1 When Did Denck and Haetzer Cross the Line?
Defining Heterodoxy in the Early Reformation
?Geoffrey Dipple
2 "Worth as Much as Jeremiah and Isaiah"
Melchior Hoffman and the Prophecies of Lienhard and Ursula Jost
?Christina Moss
3 Whirlwinds, Sudden Death, and an Army of Toads
Baptist Prodigies of the 1660s
?Joshua Caleb Smith
Part 2: Radical Religion and Social Change in the Reformation
4 Monster or Homo Divinus?
Thomas Muentzer's Testimony of the First Chapter of the Gospel of Luke
?Christopher Martinuzzi
5 The Sword in the Ragged Sheath
The Motif of the Peasant Radical in Sixteenth-Century Prints
?Jonathan Trayner
Part 3: On the Boundaries of Sectarianism: Rethinking the Social Location of Anabaptism
6 "He or She, Husband or Wife Should Have Escaped the City"
Dispossession Narratives and Culpability after the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster
?Jessica C. Lowe
7 Pragmatic Toleration of Anabaptists in the Electoral Palatinate, 1650-1664
?Cory D. Davis
8 "As Far as the Records Dictate"
Archival Logics in Anabaptist Source Collections
?David Y. Neufeld
Index