Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: THE PEASANTS' WAR: THREE ESSAYS 1 The Peasants' War Seen through the Prism of Current Historiography 2 The Radicalization of the Social Gospel of the Reformation, 1524–1527 3 Anabaptists and Future Anabaptists in the Peasants' War PART TWO: ANABAPTIST COMMUNITY OF GOODS 4 The Swiss Brethren and Acts 4: A Rule of Sharing and a Rule against Exploitation 5 The Anti-Materialistic Piety of Thomas Müntzer and Its Anabaptist Expressions 6 Anabaptist Münster, 1534–1535: The War Communism of the Notables 7 Anabaptist Moravia, 1526–1622: Communitarian Christianity in One Country Epilogue Appendix A: Anabaptists in the Peasants' War Appendix B: Fragment of the Lost Chronicle of Gabriel Ascherham Notes Index A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z