Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Author "Moss, Christina"

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An Examination of the Visions of Ursula Jost in the Context of Early Anabaptism and Late Medieval Christianity

Moss, Christina (University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)

In early 1530, the lay preacher and recent Anabaptist convert Melchior Hoffman published a series of seventy-seven visions by the Strasbourg butcher’s wife Ursula Jost. In its own day this series of visions, which is the ...
“Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy”: Visions, Apocalypticism, and Gender in Strasbourg, 1522-1539

Moss, Christina (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)

This study examines the life and work of Lienhard and Ursula Jost, two peasant religious visionaries active in Strasbourg between 1522 and 1539, in the midst of the religious turmoil of the early Reformation. The Josts ...