The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods

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ID9294288
AuthorsJames M Stayer (corresponding author)
Year1991
Pages256
Publication date1991-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGerman Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780773562950
OpenAlexW4385534404
Open LibraryOL34450131M
ISBN9780773562950
LanguageEN
Citations received15

James Stayer argues that Anabaptist community of goods continued the popular radicalism of the early Reformation and the Peasants' War of 1525. During the German Reformation hundreds of thousands of commoners were mobilized by the hope that established clerical and aristocratic order could be replaced by justice and equity based on the divine law of the Bible. After the defeat of the commoners in the Peasants' War, some of the most ardent adherents of social and religious reform attempted to achieve these same aspirations by trying to implement the apostolic model of Acts 2 and 4 through the Anabaptists. Thus, as Stayer reveals, the Peasants' War was an essential formative experience for many of the original leaders of Anabaptism

Anabaptists · Archaeology · German · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Church history · Germany

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