Sisters : : myth and reality of Anabaptist, Mennonite, and Doopsgezind women ca. 1525-1900 / / edited by Mirjam van Veen [and five others].

• Superior document: Brill's Series in Church History, Volume 65
• TeilnehmendeR: Veen, Mirjam van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Leto izdaje: 2014
• Jezik: English
• Serija: Brill's series in church history ; Volume 65.
• Fizični opis: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Note: Includes index.

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 b...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Mirjam van Veen , Piet Visser , Gary K. Waite , Els Kloek , Marion Kobelt-Groch and Anna Voolstra
• Introduction / Mirjam van Veen , Piet Visser , Gary K. Waite , Els Kloek , Marion Kobelt-Groch and Anna Voolstra
• Naked Harlots or Devout Maidens? Images of Anabaptist Women in the Context of the Iconography of Witches in Europe, 1525–1650 / Gary K. Waite
• Greedy, Violent, and False: On the Image of the Anabaptist Woman in Thomas Birck’s Ehespiegel (1598) / Marion Kobelt-Groch
• Anabaptist Women and Their Families in Tirol, 1527–1531: Dispelling the Myth of Poverty / Linda A. Huebert Hecht
• “…Polué et souillée…”: The Reformed Polemic against Anabaptist Marriage, 1560–1650 / Mirjam van Veen
• Images of Women in the Anabaptists’ Martyrology Het Offer des Heeren / Nicole Grochowina
• “Pleased be God, dear Housewife and Sister in the Lord”: Gender Aspects in the Hymns of the Early Anabaptist Movement / Martina Bick
• Your Mother in Bonds: The Testament of Soetken van den Houte / Marjan Blok
• The Stereotype of the Sanctimonious Menniste Zusje (Mennonite Sister) Reconsidered / Mirjam de Baar
• Deaconesses, Fishwives, Crooks and Prophetesses: Mennonite Image and Reality in Golden Age Amsterdam / Mary S. Sprunger
• L’Honneste Femme: A French, Roman Catholic Role Model for Dutch Doopsgezind Sisters / Piet Visser
• Gender and the Suppression of “Anabaptist Pietists” in Bern / Lucinda Martin
• Mennonites, Gender and the Rise of Civil Society in the Dutch Enlightenment / Michael Driedger
• A Stylish Silk Gown or Plain Bodice and Skirt? Clothing Prescriptions and Individual Choice among Eighteenth-Century Groningen Doopsgezind Women / Marcel Kremer
• Grumpy old women? The (Self) Image of Elderly Sisters of the Doopsgezind Oude Vrouwenhuis or Elderly Women’s Home in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam / Anna Voolstra
• The Trouble with Marrying Prussian Lutheran Boys: The End of Exogamous Marriages in the Mennonite Community in the Polish Vistula Delta, 1713–1808 / Mark Jantzen
• Romance, Marriage, Sex and the Status of Women in Nineteenth-Century Tsarist Russian Mennonite Society / John Staples
• Index of Personal Names / Mirjam van Veen , Piet Visser , Gary K. Waite , Els Kloek , Marion Kobelt-Groch and Anna Voolstra
• Index of Geographical names / Mirjam van Veen , Piet Visser , Gary K. Waite , Els Kloek , Marion Kobelt-Groch and Anna Voolstra
• Index of Subjects / Mirjam van Veen , Piet Visser , Gary K. Waite , Els Kloek , Marion Kobelt-Groch and Anna Voolstra.