Publication Year:1961
Original Language:English
Author Nationality:United Kingdom
The Pursuit of the Millennium
Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
by Norman Cohn
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John of Leiden was a Dutch Anabaptist leader. In 1533 he moved to Münster, capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, where he became an influential prophet, turned the city into a millenarian Anabaptist theocracy, and proclaimed himself King of New Jerusalem...