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Title Sisters : myth and reality of Anabaptist, Mennonite, and Doopsgezind women ca. 1525-1900 / edited by Mirjam van Veen, Piet Visser, Gary K. Waite, Els Kloek, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Anna Voolstra
Published Boston : Brill, 2014

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Series Brill's Series in Church History ; Volume 65
Brill's series in church history ; Volume 65.
Contents Sisters: Myth and Reality of Anabaptist, Mennonite, and Doopsgezind Women ca. 1525-1900; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: The Sixteenth Century: Propaganda, Persecution, and Myth-Busting; 1 Naked Harlots or Devout Maidens? Images of Anabaptist Women in the Context of the Iconography of Witches in Europe, 1525-1650; 2 Greedy, Violent, and False: On the Image of the Anabaptist Woman in Thomas Birck's Ehespiegel (1598); 3 Anabaptist Women and Their Families in Tirol, 1527-1531: Dispelling the Myth of Poverty
4 " ... Polué et souillée ... ": The Reformed Polemic against Anabaptist Marriage, 1560-16505 Images of Women in the Anabaptists' Martyrology Het Offer des Heeren; 6 "Pleased be God, dear Housewife and Sister in the Lord": Gender Aspects in the Hymns of the Early Anabaptist Movement; 7 Your Mother in Bonds: The Testament of Soetken van den Houte; Part 2: The Long Seventeenth Century: Caricatures, Stereotypes, and Super Sisters; 8 The Stereotype of the Sanctimonious Menniste Zusje (Mennonite Sister) Reconsidered
9 Deaconesses, Fishwives, Crooks and Prophetesses: Mennonite Image and Reality in Golden Age Amsterdam10 L'Honneste Femme: A French, Roman Catholic Role Model for Dutch Doopsgezind Sisters; 11 Gender and the Suppression of "Anabaptist Pietists" in Bern; 12 Mennonites, Gender and the Rise of Civil Society in the Dutch Enlightenment; Part 3: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Subordinate Sisters in Control; 13 A Stylish Silk Gown or Plain Bodice and Skirt? Clothing Prescriptions and Individual Choice among Eighteenth-Century Groningen Doopsgezind Women
14 Grumpy old women? The (Self) Image of Elderly Sisters of the Doopsgezind Oude Vrouwenhuis or Elderly Women's Home in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam15 The Trouble with Marrying Prussian Lutheran Boys: The End of Exogamous Marriages in the Mennonite Community in the Polish Vistula Delta, 1713-1808; 16 Romance, Marriage, Sex and the Status of Women in Nineteenth-Century Tsarist Russian Mennonite Society; Index of Personal Names; Index of Geographical names; Index of Subjects
Summary Imagology, not gender studies, sets the stage for the analysis of the perceptions of the European Anabaptist/Mennonite 'sisters', from the 16th-19th centuries, within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mennonite women -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Anabaptist women -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Women in Christianity -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant.
Anabaptist women
Mennonite women
Women in Christianity
Europe
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Veen, Mirjam van, editor
ISBN 9004275029
9789004275027