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Mirjam van Veen is professor of Church History at VU University Amsterdam, specialising in the 16th century. She received her PhD in 2001, for which she researched polemics in the writings of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and Johannes Calvijn. She has also published widely on David Joris, Sebastian Castellio and the history of Dutch tolerance.Piet Visser received his PhD in 1988 and is professor emeritus of Anabaptist and Doopsgezind History at the Doopsgezind Seminary and VU University Amsterdam. He mainly publishes on the history of Dutch Anabaptism/Mennonitism and its relevance for the Dutch society and culture.Gary K. Waite received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Waterloo and is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. He publishes on various aspects of early modern religious culture and beliefs, including Dutch Anabaptism, the witch-hunts, and interaction among Christians, Jews and Muslims.

"The object of this new publication is to examine not only the role of women in the various stages of the Anabaptist movement but above all what the editors call 'imagology,' a neologism for the formation of images through the ages." Alastair Hamilton, in: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 95 (2015).

• Contributors include: Mirjam de Baar, Martina Bick, Marian Blok, Michael Driedger, Nicole Grochowina, Linda A. Huebert Hecht, Mark Jantzen, Marcel Kremer, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Lucinda Martin, Mary S. Sprunger, John Staples, Mirjam van Veen, Piet Visser, Anna Voolstra, and Gary K. Waite