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Essays in Honour of Werner O. Packull
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AUTHOR Snyder, C. ArnoldPUBLISHER Pandora PressFORMAT Paperback$32.50 ($CDN) |
• ISBN: 1894710274
• Publication Date: 2002
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In a career spanning more than thirty years, Werner O. Packull has established himself as one of the premier historians of early modern Europe, specializing in the area of Radical Reformation studies. He is recognized as the world's expert in the history of sixteenth-century Anabaptist communities in Moravia. This volume contains original studies by thirteen leading scholars, published in honour of professor Werner O. Packull.
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This volume of essays pays tribute to Werner Packull as scholar, teacher, and friend. In a brief biographical sketch, Edmund Priess characterizes Werner Packull as a man of faith, loyalty, scholarly integrity, and intellectual honesty. Gary Waite follows with an appreciation of Packull's scholarship. Packull first made his mark as one of the founders of the polygenesis model of Anabaptist origins. He continues to open up new areas of sixteenth-century Anabaptist research, most recently with his research on the origins of Hutterite communities in Austria and Moravia. The essays in this volume touch on a wide range of topics, but several common themes do emerge that reflect issues that Packull deals with in his own work. Four essays discuss the cultural/intellectual milieu in which reformers and Anabaptists developed their own identities. ---Several essays deal with the writing of history. ---Historians Geoffrey Dipple and Douglas Shantz examine the contruction of "usable past" in free church traditions. ---The role of artisans in the radical reformation receives attention in three essays. ---As with many Festschrifften, the wide range of topics in this colume prevents a simple assessment of its contribution. Nonetheless, the essays do reflect the influence of Werner Packull on scholarship of the radical reformation and beyond. The essays by Rothkegel and von Schlachta deserve special attention: along with Werner Packull, they have begun to contribute groundbreaking scholarship on the relatively unexplored reformation in Eastern Europe. ----Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII/2(2006), Victor Thiessen, Wilfred Laurier University