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The Tailor-King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster (1st Edition) by Anthony Arthur Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-312-26783-5 / 0312267835 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-26783-4 / 9780312267834 He was only a Dutch tailor's apprentice, but from 1534 to 1535, Jan van Leyden led a radical sect of persecuted Anabaptists to repeated triumphs over the combined powers of church and state. Revered by his followers as the new David, the charismatic young leader pronounced the northern German city |