Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments during the Reformation (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies)

A detatailed and well written account of this group of Anabaptists.The oldest and largest communal society in North America, the HutteritesAnabaptists of German origin, like the Amish, Mennonites, and Brethrenhave long been the subject of scholarly study and popular curiosity. Werner Packull tells the comprehensive story of the Hutterite beginnings in their original homelandsparticularly in Tyrol and Moraviaand discovers important relationships among early Anabaptist sects.