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Profiles of Anabaptist women : sixteenth-century reforming pioneers

Examines women who chose to risk persecution and martyrdom to pursue the radical Protestant movement during the Reformation. Most of the 34 essays focus on a single woman, but others discuss such groups as women in the Hutterite song book, women in Tiron who recanted, and women leaders in Augsburg
eBook, English, 1996
Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont., 1996
Electronic books
1 online resource (xxi, 438 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780889206038, 9781554587902, 9786610925940, 0889206031, 1554587905, 6610925941
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The Swiss Anabaptist context
Agnes Zender of Aarau
Agnes Linck from Biel
Adelheit Schwartz of Watt
Margret Hottinger of Zollikon
Elsbeth Theiller of Horgen
Anna Scharnschlager of Hopfgarten, Tirol
Margaret Hellwart of Beutelsbach
The South German/Austrian Anabaptist context
Anabaptist women leaders in Augsburg
Sabina Bader of Augsburg
Magdalena, Walpurga, and Sophia Marschalk von Pappenheim
Helena von Freyberg of Münichau
Anna Gasser of Lüsen
Anabaptist women in Tirol who recanted
Elisabeth von Wolkenstein of Uttenheim
Katharina Purst Hutter of Sterzing
Wives, female leaders, and two female martyrs from Hall
Ursula Hellrigel of the Ötz Valley and Annelein of Freiburg
Women in the Chronicle of the Hutterian brethren
Women in the Hutterite song book (Die Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder)
The North German/Dutch Anabaptist context
Margarethe Prüss of Strasbourg
Ursula Jost and Barbara Rebstock of Strasbourg
Hille Feicken of Sneek
Divara of Haarlem
Fenneke van Geelen of Deventer
Women supporters of David Joris
Anna Jansz of Rotterdam
Maria and Ursula van Beckum
Elisabeth and Hadewijk of Friesland
Soetken van den Houte of Oudenaarde
Anna Hendriks of Amsterdam
Soetjen Gerrits of Rotterdam and Vrou Gerrits of Medemblik
English