Framing Religious Leadership in Dutch Nationalist Confessional Historiography: Anabaptism on the Lower Rhine in the 1540s–1550s

This article examines the convention in Anabaptist historiography that Menno Simons (1496-1561) and in his wake Dirk Philips (1504-1568) increasingly stabilized the Anabaptist movement and built an extensive Anabaptist network in the Habsburg Netherlands/Northern Germany, from Friesland and Groninge...

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主要作者: Brok, Theo ca. 21. Jh. (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: De Gruyter 2024
In: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2024, 卷: 11, 發布: 1, Pages: 21-51
Further subjects:B Lower Rhine Anabaptism
B Menno Simons
B Invention of tradition
B Anabaptist historiography
B Melchiorites
B Reformation in the Low countries
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總結:This article examines the convention in Anabaptist historiography that Menno Simons (1496-1561) and in his wake Dirk Philips (1504-1568) increasingly stabilized the Anabaptist movement and built an extensive Anabaptist network in the Habsburg Netherlands/Northern Germany, from Friesland and Groningen to Holland and Flanders in the west and to Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein to Poland in the east and back. The focus is on the development of Anabaptism on the Lower Rhine, in particular on the de-centralized religious leadership of local, cross-border Anabaptist bishops. It challenges the consensus narrative in the historiography of an alleged central role of Menno and Dirk and demonstrates that during the formative years 1540-1550, Anabaptism on the Lower Rhine and in the Habsburg Netherlands/Northern Germany was polyphonic, represented by itinerant local bishops, each with their own - albeit overlapping - network.
ISSN:2196-6656
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2024-2002