Kat Hill has been a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford and recently became a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. She completed her DPhil, supervised by Professor Lyndal Roper, in 2010 and her Masters in 2006, both at Balliol College, University of Oxford. She has published on the history of Anabaptism more broadly in the sixteenth-century, including a forthcoming article in Past and Present, and she is currently working on a project on Lutheran culture in the later sixteenth-century.

"Her book is exceptionally well informed, in short, an important and rich contribution to current research, not just on central German Anabaptism, but on the sixteenth-century Reformation in Germany more generally." -- Kaspar Von Greyerz , University of Basel, History

"Hill's work is an exemplary case study of confessional dynamics, and a look at the emotional concerns and anxieties that animated theological affiliations of individual Christians in the era before confessionalization."--Aaron Klink, Lutheran Quarterly

"[A]n ambitious book....It suggests novel and potentially valuable approaches to a number of subjects at the centre of scholarship on Anabaptism, the Reformation, and early modern religious history....[A] very good book..."--Geofrey Dipple, Renaissance and Reformation

"This is a welcome addition to current studies on sixteenth-century Anabaptism...In focusing on Saxony and Franconia, Hill's study exemplifies all the virtues of the contemporary research in question."--Journal of the Historical Association

"This is an ambitious book that promises many new and exciting things to its readers, who should include scholars not only of Anabaptism but of the Reformation and of early modern religious history more generally....[V]ery good book..."--Geoffrey Dipple, Renaissance and Reformation