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From the 18th to the 21st of July Gary Waite and Mike Driedger participated in a conference on “Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Reformation Era” in Nuremberg, Germany. For more conference information, go to http://www.nuremberg2017.org/.
Below is a set of thoughts about July 4. Yes, lots of horrible and questionable things have happened on this day (#onthisday). The list below is my selection of what I hope are more positive events (using the Wikipedia page for July 4 as the starting point, and then subtracting many, many selections). The list […]
Lots of biographical sketches of important women related to Dutch “Anabaptist” and Mennonite history.
Headline: A mainstream assumption in Mennonite studies since the early 20th century (maybe the 1880s, more accurately) is that early modern Mennonite history (i.e., Mennonite history before 1800 or even 1900) was shaped primarily by German culture and German-language sources. This assumption is problematic because it is built on an empirically questionable foundation! In other […]
UNDER CONSTRUCTION: If you are a publisher looking for an image of 16th-century Anabaptists, especially the “fanatical” Anabaptists who controlled the city of Münster, Westphalia, for much of 1534 and 1535, one of the likely places you’ll look is the Granger Historical Picture Archive I’ll be adding more details to this post soon. For now, […]
For a little fun on Hallowe’en 2021, this post provides highlights from a short 18th-century pamphlet written in the voice of a ghostly Menno Simons.