and censorship was not as strictly enforced as we might presume. Furthermore Anabaptist intellectual culture did not simply look back towards medieval mysticism or inwards to exclusive radical traditions; Anabaptist theology evolved from the same intellectual influences as other early reformers, through creative engagement with Latinate culture and the new medium of print. Unless we appreciate that not every radical wrote visibly radical treatises, and not every printer who printed them was a non-conformist, the Anabaptist works run off by presses like that of Ulhart and Prüss, will continue to seem like diverting oddities, curios of the story of the Reformation and its printing revolution. In reality they are central to understanding the dynamism of cultural exchange in the German Reformation.
and censorship was not as strictly enforced as we might presume. Furthermore Anabaptist intellectual culture did not simply look back towards medieval mysticism or inwards to exclusive radical traditions; Anabaptist theology evolved from the same intellectual influences as other early reformers, through creative engagement with Latinate culture and the new medium of print. Unless we appreciate that not every radical wrote visibly radical treatises, and not every printer who printed them was a non-conformist, the Anabaptist works run off by presses like that of Ulhart and Prüss, will continue to seem like diverting oddities, curios of the story of the Reformation and its printing revolution. In reality they are central to understanding the dynamism of cultural exchange in the German Reformation.
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