A Companion to Anabaptism And Spiritualism, 1521-1700

For generations Reformation historians focused on who was right, and radicals were generally studied by those of their own persuasion. In this new approach to the study of historical Anabaptist belief and practice the contributors include the coming generations by proposing new areas of study. Their thirteen comprehensive essays cover the contributions of Karlstadt and Muntzer to the Reformation of the Commoners, the beginnings of Swiss Anabaptism, Swiss and South German Anabaptism from 1526 to 1540, Schwenckfeld and Frank on early modern spiritualism, Anabaptism in Moravia and Silesia, the Melchiorites and Munster, the spiritualist Anabaptists, Mennonites and Doopsgezinden in the Netherlands from 1535 to 1700, Marpeck and the later Swiss Brethren, Anabaptism literature and hymnody, women and gender roles in Anabaptist and spiritualist groups, Anabaptism martyrdom and its considerations, and the role of Anabaptism in the early modern state. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John D. Roth, Ph.D. (1989) in History, University of Chicago, is Professor of History at Goshen College, Goshen, IN, where he also serves as editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review and as director of the Mennonite Historical Library.
James Stayer, Ph.D. (1964) in History, Cornell University, came to Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 1968 where he taught for the rest of his career. He has published extensively in the field of Anabaptism and supervised the Ph.D.s of Werner Packull, Geoffrey Dipple and Michael Driedger.