"The publication of this volume is cause for celebration! The years
of painstaking research in untold towns, cities, and libraries in
Europe, as well as in North America, the empathy the author brought
to the subject... the skill evident in translating, especially
technical terms, and the firm grasp of both minute details and
their implications, as well as the overall story, have raised the
level of historical scholarship to a new high." -- Cornelius J.
Dyck, Church History
The oldest and largest communal society in North America, the
Hutterites -- Anabaptists of German origin, like the Amish,
Mennonites, and Brethren -- have long been the subject of scholarly
study and popular curiosity. Werner Packull tells the comprehensive
story of the Hutterite beginnings in their original homelands --
particularly in Tyrol and Moravia -- and discovers important
relationships among early Anabaptist sects.
"Extensive quotations from the Hutterite Chronicle, the prison
letters, and other witness accounts give immediacy to Packull's
narrative and provide English readers with a window on primary
sources that remain largely untranslated... With its wealth of
evocative source material, it is a highly readable account that
will appeal not only to specialists but also to undergraduates and
general readers." -- Erika Rummel, American Historical Review
"Packull is to be lauded for doing the research so thoroughly
and presenting the results so lucidly. His is a meticulous and
masterful piece of scholarship in a neglected area of
ecclesiastical history." -- Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et
Renaissance
"An indispensable tool and resources for all who describe and
interpret these traditions from religiousand social perspectives."
-- Walter Klaassen, Conrad Grebel Review
"This remarkable history of early Swiss and Upper German
Anabaptism sets a new norm for scholarship, combining as it does
for the first time in such depth the methodologies of social
history and the history of ideas. Werner O. Packull seems to have
left no stone unturned." -- Leonard Gross, Mennonite Quarterly
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