Eradicating the Devil's Minions

As a religious sect, the Anabaptists were seen to practice unusual rituals and follow an eccentric set of beliefs. One story, for instance, purports that an Anabaptist prophet, claiming to have visited heaven, persuaded his followers to run naked through the streets of Amsterdam. Eradicating the Devil''s Minions investigates these beliefs in the context of Reformation Europe, a time in which perse...