Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social Theology

This intellectual and social history is the first comprehensive biography of Pilgram Marpeck (c. 1495–1556), a radical reformer and lay leader of Anabaptist groups in Switzerland, Austria, and South Germany. Marpeck’s influential life and work provide a glimpse of the theologies and practices of the Roman Church and of various reform movements in sixteenth-century Europe.

Drawing on extensive archival data documenting Marpeck’s professional life, as well as on his numerous published and unpu...