Charlie's recommendations for
Books about Anabaptists
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Three picks: Moore, John Allen
Anabaptist Portraits (Herald Press, 1984)
Concise bios of 6 leaders - Grebel, Mantz, Blaurock, Sattler, Denck and Hubmaier. Includes excerpts from each man's most important writings. Only $12.99.
van Braght, Thieleman J.
Martyrs Mirror (Herald Press, 1938; rev. ed. 1998)
The centuries-old martyrology is now available in a paperback version - all 1158 pages of it. A deal at $31.88.
Three Hutterian classics: Hostetler, John A.
Hutterite Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997; originally published 1974)
This volume is back in print in a sturdy paperback edition. Only $24.95.
Packull, Werner O.
Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian experiments during the Reformation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
Pricey at $59.95, but includes the latest scholarship.
Harrison, Wes
Andreas Ehrenpreis and Hutterite Faith and Practice (Pandora Press/Herald Press, 1997)
More good ones: Oyer, John S. and Robert S. Kreider
Mirror of the Martyrs: Stories of courage, inspiringly retold, of 16th-century Anabaptists who gave up their lives for their faith (Intercourse: Good Books, 1990)
An abbreviated version of Martyrs Mirror. Only $8.46.
Hamilton, Alastair, Sjouke Voolstra & Piet Visser (editors)
From Martyr to Muppy: A historical introduction to cultural assimilation processes of a religious minority in the Netherlands: the Mennonites (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1994)
$34.50.
Dyck, Cornelius J. (editor)
An Introduction to Mennonite History (Scottdale: Herald Press, 1993; originally published 1967) Now in its third revised edition, this volume has long been a popular textbook for Anabaptist/Mennonite history courses. Only $13.59.
. Stayer, James
The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994)
Only $22.95.
Estep, William
The Anabaptist Story (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996)
Only $16.
Voolstra, Sjouke
Menno Simons: His image and message (Newton: Mennonite Press, 1997)
Only $18.
. Snyder, C. Arnold and Linda Huebert Hecht (eds.)
Profiles of Anabaptist Women (Wilfrid University Press, 1996)
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