The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster by Anthony Arthur

This book has certainly been a different sort of read from usual! I seem to read a lot of memoirs and a variety of types of fiction, and I suppose this could fall under autobiography, but it is certainly more historical non-fiction, a bit more academic, with references etc. However, despite being a more factual book, it has been a very easy read, and it has been very interesting to learn more about Jan Van Leiden, the Tailor-King of Munster. He was involved in trying to being about a kind of New Jerusalem on earth, but had such rules as polygamy; many people were also executed during this time. Some fascinating stories, such as the soldier who was on siege duty outside the city who used to bare his bottom towards the city at the same time every day. One day, he discovered the folly of such a practice, as the cannons in the city were all aimed at him and set off at the same time. Ouch!