Mennonite Encyclopedia Vol.4

Volume 4 of The Mennonite Encyclopedia published in four volumes from 1955 to 1959 (with a supplemental fifth volume in 1990), is the most accessible and authoritative reference work available on a host of Anabaptist and Mennonite topics. Published jointly by the Mennonite Church, the General Conference Mennonite Church, and the Mennonite Brethren Church, the four-volume set contains maps, illustrations, and 13,688 articles contributed by more than 2,700 writers.The Mennonite Encyclopedia provides comprehensive documentation of the social, economic, religious, intellectual, family, community, and other areas of Anabaptist and Mennonite life and thought. Accounts of over 2,000 martyrs are given, as are congregational, institutional, and family histories. Important bibliographies appear with most articles.