In the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, the Carthusians filled the role played in the tenth and eleventh centuries by the Cluniac network, in the Twelfth century by the Cistercians, and in the thirteenth century by the Franciscans and Dominicans: Western Christendom's most outstanding professional intercessors before God's throne. Founded in the late eleventh century, a few years before the Cistercians, the Carthusians grew very slowly during their first two centuries but were highly respected from the beginning.
In the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, the Carthusians filled the role played in the tenth and eleventh centuries by the Cluniac netwo...
Covers the 435-year history of the faith, life, and culture of Anabaptists in Europe and Mennonites throughout the world. Presented are people, movements, and places in their relation to Mennonites.
This Encyclopedia was jointly edited by historians and scholars of the Mennonite Church, the General Conference of Mennonites, and the Mennonite Brethren Church. More than 2,700 writers contributed articles.
Volume V includes updates on materials in the first four volumes plus nearly 1,000 new articles edited by Cornelius J. Dyck and Dennis D. Martin.
Covers the 435-year history of the faith, life, and culture of Anabaptists in Europe and Mennonites throughout the world. Presented are people, moveme...
Covers the 435-year history of the faith, life, and culture of Anabaptists in Europe and Mennonites throughout the world. Presented are people, movements, and places in their relation to Mennonites.
This Encyclopedia was jointly edited by historians and scholars of the Mennonite Church, the General Conference of Mennonites, and the Mennonite Brethren Church. More than 2,700 writers contributed articles.
Volume V includes updates on materials in the first four volumes plus nearly 1,000 new articles edited by Cornelius J. Dyck and Dennis D. Martin.
Covers the 435-year history of the faith, life, and culture of Anabaptists in Europe and Mennonites throughout the world. Presented are people, moveme...
The Mennonite Encyclopedia provides comprehensive documentation of the social, economic, religious, intellectual, family, community, and other areas of Anabaptist and Mennonite life and thought. Accounts of over 2,000 martyrs are given, as are congregational, institutional, and family histories. Important bibliographies appear with most articles.
The Mennonite Encyclopedia provides comprehensive documentation of the social, economic, religious, intellectual, family, community, and other areas o...
The Mennonite Encyclopedia provides comprehensive documentation of the social, economic, religious, intellectual, family, community, and other areas of Anabaptist and Mennonite life and thought. Accounts of over 2,000 martyrs are given, as are congregational, institutional, and family histories. Important bibliographies appear with most articles.
The Mennonite Encyclopedia provides comprehensive documentation of the social, economic, religious, intellectual, family, community, and other areas o...
