Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Introduction 3
6. The Peasants' War: Three Essays
7. The Peasants' War Seen through the Prism of Current Historiography 19
8. The Radicalization of the Social Gospel of the Reformation, 1524-1527 45
9. Anabaptists and Future Anabaptists in the Peasants' War 61
10. Anabaptist Community of Goods
11. The Swiss Brethren and Acts 4: A Rule of Sharing and a Rule against Exploitation 95
12. The Anti-Materialistic Piety of Thomas Müntzer and Its Anabaptist Expressions 107
13. Anabaptist Münster, 1534-1535: The War Communism of the Notables 123
14. Anabaptist Moravia, 1526-1622: Communitarian Christianity in One Country 139
15. Epilogue 160
16. Anabaptists in the Peasants' War 165
17. Fragment of the Lost Chronicle of Gabriel Ascherham 168
18. Notes 173
19. Index 221