<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>While relatively unknown to Anglophone circles, there was a thriving Anabaptist community in Italy during the reformation. It is the scope of this article to help retrace the origins of the Anabaptist movement in Italy (a movement which lasted at best for sixty years, from the 1520s-1530s to the 1570s, and did not leave us with the theological writings such as those produced by Hubmaier, Marpeck, or Simons) and to set straight some misconceptions unintentionally (or intentionally) perpetuated by some who have attempted this journey in the past. This is done in the hopes of raising appreciation for the movement and of enticing future research interest in this forgotten branch of the Radical Reformation.</p></abstract>

While relatively unknown to Anglophone circles, there was a thriving Anabaptist community in Italy during the reformation. It is the scope of this article to help retrace the origins of the Anabaptist movement in Italy (a movement which lasted at best for sixty years, from the 1520s-1530s to the 1570s, and did not leave us with the theological writings such as those produced by Hubmaier, Marpeck, or Simons) and to set straight some misconceptions unintentionally (or intentionally) perpetuated by some who have attempted this journey in the past. This is done in the hopes of raising appreciation for the movement and of enticing future research interest in this forgotten branch of the Radical Reformation.

Anabaptism in Italy

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While relatively unknown to Anglophone circles, there was a thriving Anabaptist community in Italy during the reformation. It is the scope of this article to...

Anabaptism in Italy

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 55 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/perc-2017-0022

Keywords
Italian Anabaptism, Italian reformation, antitrinitarianism, Camillo Renato, George Huntston Williams

© 2017 Maël Leo David Soliman Disseau, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Anabaptism in Italy

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 55 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/perc-2017-0022

KeywordsItalian Anabaptism, Italian reformation, antitrinitarianism, Camillo Renato, George Huntston Williams

© 2017 Maël Leo David Soliman Disseau, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Italian Anabaptism, Italian reformation, antitrinitarianism, Camillo Renato, George Huntston Williams