NOTE: This post will focus on literature from approximately the last 10 years (i.e., since the publication of Bernhard Rothmann and the Reformation in Münster).
More literature is on the way. Stay tuned.
Using Zotero
This is a quick introduction to using Zotero, a bibliographic tool that is unique and powerful because it allows for individual and collaborative work. This is an early draft of a page that will eventually be available at the Amsterdamnified Project webpage. Since that page is undergoing some maintenance, I’m starting the page here. I’m making this draft for Gary Waite’s graduate students at the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton, and for my undergraduate students at Brock University. Read more
Family history mystery
What’s your family history mystery? One of mine has to do with this photo.
Conference poster: “Refusing to Fight” (Brock University, Oct. 2018)
PLEASE CIRCULATE! Call for Papers! Refusing to Fight: Reimagining War @Brocku October 2018. https://t.co/8soj0Fg1xQ #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/bOSwUHLyTo
— Colin Rose (@crosehistorian) September 7, 2017
The Blasphemy of Jan of Leiden: A research plan
ORIGINAL POST (May 2017): The Blasphemy of Jan of Leiden is the oldest text by Menno Simons, and it indicates that he was an early opponent of the Anabaptists of Münster. This, at least, has long been the consensus view about early Mennonite history. A challenge for researchers, however, is that the oldest copy of The Blasphemy is from 1627. This post introduces a project to find out more about this 1627 text.
UPDATE (April 2018): The transcription project is still in planning. Brookelnn Cooper has completed her archival research and is not working on her MA paper, tentatively titled “Identifying the Anonymous Printer of Menno Simons’ The Blasphemy of Jan van Leiden (1627): A Typographical Analysis.”
Images of Erfurt during the IAHR
I’m writing this post on the second full day of the conference of the Intl Assoc for the History of Religions (iahr2015.org). Before spending the time to make some more content-heavy posts, I’ll include a few images.
I arrived on Sunday in time to take a walk around the old city. The Cathedral is of course one of the landmarks.
Erfurt Cathedral (Dom)
Photos of Ana/Baptist Münster
1. St. Lamberti Church.
(Self-)Portraits of early modern artists from Doopsgezind (Mennonite) milieus
This post consists of a gallery of early modern Dutch Mennonite artists (or those who were a part of Mennonite milieus, even though they might not have been congregational members). The list is far from exhaustive, but it provides a quick sense of just how involved in the arts Mennonites were. For more details about Mennonite artists, or Anabaptist portrayed in art, click the tags “art” or “portrait”. Read more
Münster / Monster: A Storify Post
Executed today: 4 June 1535
Inspired by the Twitter hashtags #executedtoday and #onthisday, I have been looking through the Global Anabaptist-Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (gameo.org) from time to time. Today I came across this note in the GAMEO article by Irwin Horst on “England”:
The first Anabaptists in England, according to various polemical treatments written in the 17th century and later, came from Holland subsequent to the seditious uprising at Amsterdam on 10 May 1535 (A Short History of the Anabaptists, 1642, 48). The source of this information is Lambertus Hortensius, a Dutch ecclesiastic and chronicler, who lived contemporary with the events and whose Tumultuum Anabaptisticarum was first printed at Basel in 1548, but he nowhere holds that these Anabaptists were the original ones in England. The 25 Dutch Anabaptists arrested and brought to trial at St. Paul’s on 25 May 1535, 14 of whom were condemned and burned at London and other English towns on 4 June 1535, may have been members of the party mentioned by Hortensius.
I am noting Horst’s work here so I can find it again on a rainy day and look into this further. Please let me know if you know anything more about the early history of English “Anabaptism”.