New Directions in the Radical Reformation

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionGeoffrey Dipple and Kat HillPart 1: Redefining Radical Religion in the Reformation1 When Did Denck and Hätzer Cross the Line?Defining Heterodoxy in the Early ReformationGeoffrey Dipple2 “Worth as Much as Jeremiah and Isaiah”Melchior Hoffman and the Prophecies of Lienhard and Ursula JostChristina Moss3 Whirlwinds, Sudden Death, and an Army of ToadsBaptist Prodigies of the 1660sJoshua Caleb SmithPart 2: Radical Religion and Social Change in the Reformation4 Monster or Homo Divinus?Thomas Müntzer’s Testimony of the First Chapter of the Gospel of LukeChristopher Martinuzzi5 The Sword in the Ragged SheathThe Motif of the Peasant Radical in Sixteenth-Century PrintsJonathan TraynerPart 3: On the Boundaries of Sectarianism: Rethinking the Social Location of Anabaptism6 “He or She, Husband or Wife Should Have Escaped the City”Dispossession Narratives and Culpability after the Anabaptist Kingdom of MünsterJessica C. Lowe7 Pragmatic Toleration of Anabaptists in the Electoral Palatinate, 1650–1664Cory D. Davis8 “As Far as the Records Dictate”Archival Logics in Anabaptist Source CollectionsDavid Y. NeufeldIndex