Documenta Anabaptistica Volume 8: The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs

Brad S. Gregory, Ph.D. (1996) in History, Princeton University, is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. His first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard, 1999), received six book awards.

All those interested in the Radical Reformation, Christian martyrdom in the Reformation era, and historians of the Reformation in the Low Countries.

'...Gregory has opened a new and promising field of research.'
Mirjam van Veen, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005.
'…by providing an easily accessible text, by his illuminating introduction to the context of these writings, as well as by the interesting questions he raises in his introduction, Gregory has opened a new and promising field of research.'
Ian Mortimer, Sixteenth Century Journal/i>, 2005.
'...a valuable additional source for Mennonite history.'
Judith Pollmann, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2004.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations

Henrick Alewijnsz (9 February 1569, Middelburg). From Ueel schoone grondige leeringe wt des Heeren woort . . . [(Delft: Schinckel-Hendricxsz press], 1577)

Jacob de Roore (10 June 1569, Bruges). From In dit teghenwoordighe Boecxken zijn veel schoone ende lieflijcke Brieuen . . . ([Delft: Schinckel-Hendricxsz press], 1577)

Thijs Joriaensz (1569, Muiden). From Een Christelijcke Sentbrief, geschreuen wter geuanckenisse . . . ([Delft: Schinckel-Hendricxsz press], 1577)

Joos Verkindert (13 September 1570, Antwerp). From Sommige Brieuen, Testamenten, ende Belijdigen geschreuen door Joos Verkindert . . . ([Delft: Schinckel-Hendricxsz press], 1577)

Hendrick Verstralen (2 May 1571, Rupelmonde). From Twee schone Brieuen, gheschreuen door Hendrick Verstralen . . . ([Delft: Schinckel-Hendricxsz press], 1577)

Jan Woutersz van Cuyck (28 March 1572, Dordrecht). From Sommige belijdinghen, schriftlijcke Sentbrieuen, ende Testamenten geschreuen door Jan Wouterszoon van Cuyck . . . ([Leeuwarden: Peter Hendricksz van Campen, 1579)

Reytse Ayssesz van Olderboorn (23 April 1574, Leeuwarden). From Sommige belijdingen, schriftlijcke sentbrieuen, ende Christelicke vermaningen . . . [Leeuwarden: Pieter Hendricksz van Campen, ca. 1579]

Christiaen Rijcen (7 April 1588, Hondschoote). From Tgetuygenisse ende de nae-ghelaeten Schriften van den Godvruchtigen Christiaen Rijcen . . . (Haarlem: Franchoys Soete [printer: Gilles Rooman], 1588)

Letters to Bartolomeus Pantyn (15 September 1592), Michiel de Cleercq (15 September 1592), and Calleken, prisoners in Ghent. From Het Offer des Heeren [Amsterdam: Jan Everts Cloppenburgh, 1592]