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Martyrs mirror : a social history /
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 kno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The prehistory and production of The bloody theater. Anabaptism: origins, spread, and persecution
- Memorializing martyrdom before The bloody theater
- Thieleman van Braght and the publication of The bloody theater
- The bloody theater: martyr stories and more
- Part II. Van Braght's martyrology through the years. The bloody theater illustrated: the 1685 Martyrs mirror
- A North American edition: the 1748-49 Ephrata Martyrs mirror
- Martyrs mirror in nineteenth-century America
- Martyrs mirror in twentieth-century America
- Part III. Contemporary approaches to Martyrs mirror. Tradition-minded Anabaptists and the use of Martyrs mirror
- Assimilated Mennonites and the dilemma of Martyrs mirror
- The most usable martyr: putting Dirk Willems to work
- Going global: Martyrs mirror in the twenty-first century.