German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods.
Title:
German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods.
Author:
Stayer, James M.
ISBN:
9780773562950
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE PEASANTS' WAR: THREE ESSAYS -- 1 The Peasants' War Seen through the Prism of Current Historiography -- 2 The Radicalization of the Social Gospel of the Reformation, 1524-1527 -- 3 Anabaptists and Future Anabaptists in the Peasants' War -- PART TWO: ANABAPTIST COMMUNITY OF GOODS -- 4 The Swiss Brethren and Acts 4: A Rule of Sharing and a Rule against Exploitation -- 5 The Anti-Materialistic Piety of Thomas Müntzer and Its Anabaptist Expressions -- 6 Anabaptist Münster, 1534-1535: The War Communism of the Notables -- 7 Anabaptist Moravia, 1526-1622: Communitarian Christianity in One Country -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Anabaptists in the Peasants' War -- Appendix B: Fragment of the Lost Chronicle of Gabriel Ascherham -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In the late 1520s persecution drove many Anabaptists to Moravia where, throughout the sixteenth century, they continued the commoners' resistance to privilege in church and state. Stayer argues that in Münster, however, where there had been no Peasants' War and where urban notables were prominent in the Anabaptist leadership, Anabaptist communism was badly corrupted. The historical continuities which Stayer establishes between the Peasants' War and Anabaptism in Switzerland, south Germany, and Moravia can in part explain this contrast.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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