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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格式: | 電子 Article |
語言: | English |
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De Gruyter
2024
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2024, 卷: 11, 發布: 1, Pages: 21-51 |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 2196-6656 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2024-2002 |