Profiles of Anabaptist Women: Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers

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This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearch Council of Canada. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Profiles of Anabaptist women : sixteenth­century reforming pioneers (Studies in women and religion = Etudes sur les femmes et la religion ; v. 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0­88920­277­X 1. Anabaptists ­ Europe ­ Biography. 2. Christian women ­ Europe ­ Biography. I. Snyder, C. Arnold. II. Hecht, Linda A. Huebert (Linda Agnes Huebert), 1946­ III. Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion. IV. Series: Studies in women and religion (Waterloo, Ont.); v. 3. BX4940.P76 1996 284'.3'09224 C96­932001­9© 1996 Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion / Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses Second impression 1997 Third impression 1998 Fourth impression 1998 Fifth impression 1999 Cover design by Leslie Macredie, using an illustration that depicts the arrest of Catherine Miiller from the Knonau district, near Zurich, in the year 1637. MUller is not profiled in this book, but she belongs to the Swiss Anabaptist tradition. Etching by Jan Luyken, in Tielman Jansz van Braght, Het bloedig tooneel, of martelaers spiegel [Martyrs' Mirror], vol. 2, 2d ed. (Amsterdam, 1685). Used with permission of Conrad Grebel College Library and Archives, Waterloo, ON. Printed in Canada Profiles of Anabaptist Women: Sixteenth­Century Reforming Pioneers has been pro­ duced from a manuscript supplied in camera­ready form by the editors. All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyrights hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic or mechani­ cal—without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any request for photocopy­ ing, recording, taping or reproducing in information storage and retrieval systems of any part of this book shall be directed in writing to the Canadian Reprography Collec­ tive, 214 King Street West, Suite 312, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S6. Order from: WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Dedicated to our Mothers Doris Darlene [Swartzentruber] Stephenson Tena [Kroeker] Huebert (1917­1994) our Daughters Carrie Anne Snyder Edna Kate Snyder Melinda Hecht­Enns and our Sisters Margaret Anne [Snyder] Schipani Ruth Katherine [Huebert] Loewen ...