German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods 9780773562950

James Stayer argues that Anabaptist community of goods continued the popular radicalism of the early Reformation and the

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German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods
 9780773562950

Table of 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
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