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"The Chronicle
of the Hutterian Brethren - I"
- Contents -

ISBN 0-87486-021-0

© Copyright 1987 Plough Publishing House of the Bruderhof Foundation, Farmington PA 15437
First posted: 6 February 1997

FEEFHS thanks the Plough Publishing House for permission to reprint this page "v" of the "Contents" and others selected portions of The Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren - I, as translated and edited by the Bruderhof.

CONTENTS


Preface ...........................................................................................vii
Acknowledgements ............................................................ ix
Translator's Note .............................................................. x
Introduction .................................................................... xi
Abbreviations................................................................................................. xx

The Chronicle ................................................................................................. xxiii
Elders of the Hutterian Church ........................................................................ xxv
Register, Part One: General Events ................................................................. xxvii
Register, Part Two: Martyrs ........................................................................... lxiii
Preface to the Reader
Creation to 1517: Pre-Reformation History ......................................................... 1
1517 - 1532: The beginnings of Anabaptism ...................................................... 41
1533 - 1536: Jacob Hutter and the Emerging Brotherhood ................................ 97
1536 - 1547: Growth of the Movement Despite Severe Persecution ................ 147

The Five Articles of Faith ................................................................................ 251
1547 - 1553: the Second Great Persecution .................................................... 295
1554 - 1564: The Good Years ........................................................................ 319
1565 - 1591: the Golden Years ....................................................................... 385
1592 - 1618: Renewed Persecution ................................................................. 521

The Thirty Years War:
1618 - 1622: Tribulations in Moravia .............................................................. 633
1623 - 1650: Tribulations in Hungary and Transylvania .................................... 699

1651 - 1665: Difficult Times Continue ............................................................ 763

Appendixes
  1. Political and Economic Context ....................................................... 801
  2. Subsequent History ........................................................................... 805
  3. Current Place Names with German Equivalents ............................. 811
  4. Maps ................................................................................................. 815
  5. Diagram of an Underground Hiding Hole (Lochy) .......................... 816
  6. Facsimiles of the "1580" and "1581" Codices ............................... 823
Glossary 835
Selected Bibliography .................................................................................. 837
Index of Bible References ............................................................................ 849
General Index .............................................................................................. 855

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