New directions in the Radical Reformation : "thinking outside the cages" /
"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 Ref...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Studies in Central European histories
v. 74 |
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | x, 300 pages : some illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004546219 9789004546219 |
| ISSN: | 1547-1217 ; |