New Directions in the Radical Reformation: "Thinking Outside the Cages" (Studies in Central European Histories, 74)

Dipple, Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 9004546219 / ISBN 13: 9789004546219

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2023

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• Title: New Directions in the Radical Reformation: "Thinking Outside the Cages" (Studies in Central European Histories, 74)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004546219
• ISBN 13: 9789004546219
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Geoffrey Dipple is Professor of History at the University of Alberta. His publications include Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Günzburg and the Campaign against the Friars (1996) and “Just as in the Time of the Apostles”: Uses of History in the Radical Reformation (2005).

Kat Hill is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is a scholar of the Reformation and the legacies of religious change, specialising in the global histories of Mennonites.