A Research Project Website
In March 2019 the Amsterdamnified team leaders (Waite and Driedger) hosted a symposium for project members and a small number of guests. The meeting was scheduled for March 15 and 16, that is, the days immediately before the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Toronto (March 17-19). The local organization in Toronto was arranged by Sébastien Drouin. A special thanks to Sébastien for his work!
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.