Radical Reformation Studies: Essays Presented to James M. Stayer
ISBN: 9781315245386
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Humanities; History; Religion; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Religious History; Religious History;

This review brings together new research in three areas of Anabaptist studies and the Radical Reformation. Part One focuses on sixteenth-century Anabaptism, re-examining the 'polygenesis model' of Anabaptism articulated by Stayer, Packull and Depperman. Part Two deals with the connections between Anabaptists and other Reformation dissenters, their marginalisation as social groups and their relations with the intellectual movements of the age. The final section addresses historiographic and comparative issues of writing the history of marginalised groups, investigating some preconceptions which influence historians' approaches to Anabaptism and their implications for understanding other religious groups.

Werner O. Packull is Professor of History at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo. Among his publications on the history of Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation are Mysticism and the Early South German-Austrian Anabaptist Movement (1977), Rereading Anabaptist Beginnings (1991) and Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments during the Reformation (1995). Geoffrey L. Dipple is Assistant Professor of History at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His research into Reformation History includes Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation (1996).

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