Until well into the nineteenth century scholars have repeated a tra- ditional view of Anabaptism when they turn to Reformation history. They have regarded the Zwickau Prophets and Thomas Miintzer as the instigators of the movement. The radical disturbance caused by the Prophets and Miintzer in Wittenberg and the Saxon lands spread to Switzerland, there to plague Zwingli and his following. In both regions a radical spiritualism was the dominating element of the movement. Anabaptism reached its peak of development in the forceful establish- ment of the Kingdom of Miinster. Most historians have...
Until well into the nineteenth century scholars have repeated a tra- ditional view of Anabaptism when they turn to Reformation history. They have rega...
