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Anabaptism, a Social History, 1525–1618 : Switzerland, Austria, Moravia, South and Central Germany. By Claus-Peter Clasen. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1972. Pp. xviii + 523. £7·90. - The Social History of the Reformation. In honor of Harold J. Grimm. Edited by Lawrence P. Buck and Jonathan W. Zophy. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1972. Pp. xxiv + 397. $12·50.

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Anabaptism, a Social History, 1525–1618 : Switzerland, Austria, Moravia, South and Central Germany. By Claus-Peter Clasen. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1972. Pp. xviii + 523. £7·90.
The Social History of the Reformation. In honor of Harold J. Grimm. Edited by Lawrence P. Buck and Jonathan W. Zophy. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1972. Pp. xxiv + 397. $12·50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Brian Pullan
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The Historical Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 209 - 213
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2 Davis, N. Z., ‘Strikes and Salvation at Lyons’, Archiv für Rejormationsgeschichte, LVI (1965), 48–64;Google ScholarBirnbaum, N., ‘The Zwinglian Reformation in Zurich’, Past and Present, no. 15 (April 1959). pp. 27–47.Google Scholar

3 Suggested by Peachey, P., ‘Social Background and Social Philosophy of the Swiss Anabaptists, 1525–1540’, Mennonite Quarterly Review, XXVIII (1954), 110–11.Google Scholar

4 See Stella, A., Anabattismo e anlitrinitarismo in Italia nel XVI secolo: nuove ricerche storiche (Padua, 1969), pp. 258f.;Google Scholar G. H. Williams, ‘The Two Social Strands in Italian Anabaptism, ca. 1526-ca. 1565’, in Buck, and Zophy, , Social History of the Reformation, p. 190.Google Scholar Francesco della Sega told the Venetian Inquisition in 1562 that: ‘My father threw me out of the house because I left the law and said it was better to learn a trade and earn my bread with my own hands in the sweat of my brow than to do it by striving and arguing cases.’

5 Moeller, B., Rekhsstadt und Reformation (Gütersloh, 1962),Google Scholar translated inro French as Villes d'Empire et Réformation (Geneva, 1966);Google ScholarChrisman, M. U., Strasbourg and the Reform: a Study in the Process of Change (New Haven-London, 1967).Google Scholar