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Oct 27, 2021 · This article examines the ways in which the violent Anabaptist rising at Münster in 1533–5 was reinterpreted in Restoration England. Historians have often recognized that the incident was used to attack English Baptists in the seventeenth century, but there has been little systematic exploration of the processes behind this.
Jul 19, 2021 · This article examines the ways in which the violent Anabaptist rising at Münster in 1533–5 was reinterpreted in Restoration England. Historians have often recognized that the incident was used to attack English Baptists in the seventeenth century, but there has been little systematic exploration of the processes behind this.
For example, memories of Münster in Amsterdam were linked to the Anabaptist rising in the city in 1534, commemo- rated by instituting an annual civic procession.12 The chaos of the Anabaptist rising was transposed to England and became synonymous with memories of the disorder of the 1640s and 1650s.
Apr 11, 2024 · The Anabaptists were condemned in the sixteenth century for theological, social, economic and political reasons, especially after the catastrophe of Münster in 1534–35. Persecution was sometimes intense, though it gradually eased. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, despite persistent memories of Münster, favourable opinion grew.
Apr 1, 2006 · 1. Abstract: Dutch Anabaptists (Mennonites) had a rich heritage of preserving and telling the stories of the martyrs, using speech, handwritten accounts, and, most preeminently, printing. This article examines these various means of communication. Alongside the written word, Anabaptism theology also emphasized the importance of the "living word ...
May 1, 2018 · This article examines the ways in which the violent Anabaptist rising at Münster in 1533–5 was reinterpreted in Restoration England. Historians have often recognized that the incident was used ...
The Anabaptist kingdom of Münster. Between 1534 and 1535, the Westphalian city of Münster became the headquarters of a radical experiment in revolutionary millenarianism. Identified as the New Jerusalem by followers of Melchior Hoffmann, it was transformed into the capital of an Anabaptist kingdom ruled over by a Dutch tailor and visionary ...
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