Martyrs Mirror
a social history
$168.71
- Hardcover
440 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2016
Summary
Approximately 2,500 Anabaptists were martyred in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. Their surviving brethren compiled stories of those who suffered and died for the faith into martyr books. The most historically and culturally significant of these, The Bloody Theater-more commonly known as Martyrs Mirror-was assembled by the Dutch Mennonite minister Thieleman van Braght and published in 1660. Today, next to the Bible, it is the single most important text to Anabaptists-Amish, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421418827 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421418827 |
| Author: | David L. Weaver-Zercher |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 440 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies |
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Critics Review
Expansive and thought-provoking…The book’s percipient and fascinating analysis of the origins of anabaptism in Europe, including Mennonite and Amish sects, highlights sectarian differences within the Protestant Reformation and how questions of political power shaped and sustained those differences…Martyrs Mirror: A Social History is a significant entry in religious scholarship that deepens our understanding of anabaptism and Christianity in general. Foreword Reviews Required reading for those interested in religious history. Choice reviews Waever-Zercher is to be congratulated for his contribution to Anabaptist and Mennonite history, but also for his excellent example of work in book culture, in a fashion both enlightening and engaging. Journal of Mennonite Studies
About The Author
David L. Weaver-Zercher
David L. Weaver-Zercher is a professor of American religious history at Messiah College. He is the author of The Amish in the American Imagination and the coeditor of The Amish and the Media.
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