A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700

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.

List of Contributors

Foreword, John D. Roth
Introduction, James M. Stayer

Chapter One. Karlstadt, Müntzer and the Reformation of the Commoners, 1521–1525, Hans-Jürgen Goertz
Chapter Two. Swiss Anabaptism: The Beginnings, 1523–1525, C. Arnold Snyder
Chapter Three. Swiss-South German Anabaptism, 1526–1540, James M. Stayer
Chapter Four. Spiritualism: Schwenckfeld and Franck and their Early Modern Resonances, Emmet McLaughlin
Chapter Five. Anabaptism in Moravia and Silesia, Martin Rothkegel
Chapter Six.The Melchiorites and Münster, Ralf Klötzer
Chapter Seven. The Spiritualist Anabaptists, Geoffrey Dipple
Chapter Eight. Mennonites and Doopsgezinden in the Netherlands, 1535–1700, Piet Visser
Chapter Nine. Marpeck and Later Swiss Brethren, 1540–1700, John D. Roth
Chapter Ten. Anabaptist Religious Literature and Hymnody, John Rempel
Chapter Eleven. Gender Roles and Perspectives Among Anabaptist and Spiritualist Groups, Sigrun Haude
Chapter Twelve. Anabaptist Martyrdom: Imperatives, Experience, and Memorialization, Brad Gregory
Chapter Thirteen. Anabaptists and the Early Modern State: A Long-Term View, Michael Driedger

Index