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Title Profiles of Anabaptist women : sixteenth-century reforming pioneers / C. Arnold Snyder and Linda A. Huebert Hecht, editors.

Publication Info. Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 438 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Studies in women and religion = Etudes sur les femmes et la religion ; 3
Etudes sur les femmes et la religion ; no 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Anabaptist women -- Europe -- Biography.
Anabaptist women.
Europe.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Christian women martyrs -- Europe -- Biography.
Christian women martyrs.
Reformation.
Reformation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Snyder, C. Arnold, 1946-
Hecht, Linda A. Huebert (Linda Agnes Huebert), 1946-
Other Form: Print version: Profiles of Anabaptist women. Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1996 (DLC) 97118564
ISBN 9780889206038 (electronic book)
0889206031 (electronic book)
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9781280925948
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