The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptists

Anabaptism was essentially a German product and did not take root in the Latin countries. But the importance of this great movement in all lands possessing a strong Teutonic clement, not even excluding England, has been little realised by the average historian. The latter has been inclined for the most part to dismiss this tremendous upheaval of the disinherited classes, at the close, of the Middle Ages with a few paragraphs of abuse and often misrepresentation. We may regard Anabaptism as the culminating effort of mediaeval Christian Communism, which saw in the communisation of worldly goods (understanding by this the economic products designed for consumption

Author: Ernest Belfort Bax
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/24/2011
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781463646899

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