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chained_bear commented on the word knipperdolling
"...even better known for its bewildering variety of religious sects, some, like the Sethians, with origins hazy in the remote past, some, like the Knipperdollings, quite recent but a little apt to be quarrelsome by land if a point of doctrine were raised..."
--O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 43
March 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word knipperdolling
"'Well, sir, historically they were the followers of Bernhard Knipperdolling, one of those Munster Anabaptists...'"
--same book, p. 49
March 13, 2008