A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700 - Paperback

by James Stayer (Editor), John Roth (Editor)

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of current scholarship on Anabaptist and Spiritualist history and theology from 1521 to 1700. Since the last half of the twentieth century, the historiography of the Radical Reformation has been the focus of vigorous and creative debate. The volume-broadly cast in terms of geographic scope and topical coverage-carefully untangles the fluid boundaries of Spiritualism and Anabaptism in Early Modern European history. In addition to a narrative summary, each chapter also provides a bibliography of sources and current scholarship, and concludes with suggestions for future research. This handbook will serve a generation of students as the standard reference work on Anabaptism and Spiritualism.

Contributors include: Geoffrey Dipple, Michael Driedger, Hans-Jürgen Goertz, Brad Gregory, Sigrun Haude, Ralf Klötzer, John D. Rempel, John D. Roth, Martin Rothkegel, C. Arnold Snyder, James Stayer, Piet Visser, and R. Emmet McLaughlin.

Originally published in hardcover.

Author Biography

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.