Anti-Anabaptist polemics : Dutch Anabaptism and the devil in England, 1531-1660 / Gary K. Waite.
2023
HIST 274.206 W13a
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Title
Anti-Anabaptist polemics : Dutch Anabaptism and the devil in England, 1531-1660 / Gary K. Waite.
ISBN
9781926599991 (softcover)
1926599993 (softcover)
1926599993 (softcover)
Published
Thunder Bay : Pandora Press, 2023.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HIST 274.206 W13a
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1376266095
Summary
"Anti-Anabaptist Polemics examines polemical works printed between 1531 (when the first known treatise on Anabaptism was printed in England) and 1660 (when the Restoration brought back royal control over religion after the Interregnum) to gauge how continental Anabaptism was understood, polemically distorted, and utilized as a weapon in the debates over religious diversity in England. In the process, Gary Waite argues that some of the weaponized elements of Dutch and German Anabaptism that were hurled about in thousands of hate-filled pamphlets and treatises over the century inadvertently offered the discontented a number of innovative ideas to draw from, helping in fact to inspire the surge in new religious movements of the 1640s, even though the intention of the authors was to suppress, not encourage, dissent. Through its detailed readings of English sources, Anti-Anabaptist Polemics fills significant gaps in our understanding of the development and impact of polemical publications against Anabaptism in England leading up to the Restoration."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-233) and index.
Series
Anabaptist and Mennonite studies ; new series, v. 1.
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