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The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist community of goods
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ISBN: 128285562X 9786612855627 0773562958 9780773562950 9780773511828 0773511822 0773508422 9780773508422 0773511822 9781282855625 6612855622 Year: 1991 Publisher: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press

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"Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass preaching, the construct of the devil as an outcast from heaven and the source of all evil was linked both to the conception of women as sensual and malicious figures betraying man's soul on its arduous journey to salvation and to the notion of Jews as treacherous dissidents in the Christian landscape. These stereotypes, widely disseminated for over three hundred years, persist today. The exemplum, or cautionary story incorporated into preachers' manuals and popular homilies, was an important mode of religious teaching for clerical and lay folk alike. Sermon narratives drawn from Hindu mythology, Arab storytelling, and secular folktales entertained all classes of medieval society while dispensing theological and cultural instruction. In Devils, Women, and Jews, the vital genre of the medieval sermon story is, for the first time, made accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike. Rendered in modern English, the tales provide an invaluable primary resource for medievalists, anthropologists, psychologists, folklorists, and students of women's studies and Judaica. Critical introductions and explanatory headnotes contextualize the tales, and comprehensive endnotes and a bibliography allow readers to follow up analogue and subject studies in their own areas of interest."--Amazon.ca

Profiles of Anabaptist women
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ISBN: 1554587905 1280925949 9786610925940 0889206031 9780889206038 9781554587902 9781280925948 9780889202771 088920277X 6610925941 Year: 1996 Volume: 3 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Examines women who chose to risk persecution and martyrdom to pursue the radical Protestant movement during the Reformation. Most of the 34 essays focus on a single woman, but others discuss such groups as women in the Hutterite song book, women in Tiron who recanted, and women leaders in Augsburg.

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