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Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either opponents or sympathizers, as a means of demonizing or promoting the dissident, radical free church movement. This volume explores the characteristics, backgrounds and effects of the collective perceptions of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, as well as their self-understanding, from the sixteenth into the nineteenth centuries, in a variety of case studies. This is not a gender study in the traditional sense. The theory of imagology sets the stage for the interpretation of the image of the European Mennonite sisters, acting within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine (tsarist Russia).
Price: $227.00
Pages: 336
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Series in Church History
Publication Date:
01 September 2014
ISBN: 9789004275010
Format: Hardcover
Mirjam van Veen is professor of Church History at VU University Amsterdam, specialising in the 16th century. She received her PhD in 2001, for which she researched polemics in the writings of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and Johannes Calvijn. She has also published widely on David Joris, Sebastian Castellio and the history of Dutch tolerance.
Piet Visser received his PhD in 1988 and is professor emeritus of Anabaptist and Doopsgezind History at the Doopsgezind Seminary and VU University Amsterdam. He mainly publishes on the history of Dutch Anabaptism/Mennonitism and its relevance for the Dutch society and culture.
Gary K. Waite received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Waterloo and is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. He publishes on various aspects of early modern religious culture and beliefs, including Dutch Anabaptism, the witch-hunts, and interaction among Christians, Jews and Muslims.
Piet Visser received his PhD in 1988 and is professor emeritus of Anabaptist and Doopsgezind History at the Doopsgezind Seminary and VU University Amsterdam. He mainly publishes on the history of Dutch Anabaptism/Mennonitism and its relevance for the Dutch society and culture.
Gary K. Waite received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Waterloo and is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. He publishes on various aspects of early modern religious culture and beliefs, including Dutch Anabaptism, the witch-hunts, and interaction among Christians, Jews and Muslims.