Amsterdamnified!

"Amsterdamnified!" is a research project based in Canada (UNB-Fredericton and Brock University) with European partners. For the period from 2015 to 2020 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is providing generous funding. The full title of the project is "Religious Dissenters, Spiritualist Ideas and Urban Associationalism in the Emergence of the Early Enlightenment in England and the Low Countries, 1540-1700." The short title is derived from a 1641 pamphlet by the English poet John Taylor.

Amsterdamnified! A brief project description

Keywords: lay religion, heterodoxy, the devil, natural philosophy, Enlightenment, Spiritualists, Familists, Mennonites, Socinians, Quakers, David Joris, Baruch de Spinoza, Amsterdam, London.

Email group: “Spiritualist scholars network”

We are seeking to collaborate with other scholars who are working in the area of spiritualism and spiritualists in Early Modern Europe. Join us!

Reading John Taylor’s 1641 pamphlet using Voyant Tools

This post is about the oldest source of the quirky term in our project’s title. In the post we use the source to showcase our use of Voyant Tools for digital text analysis.

New book

Gary Waite has just published Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse: From Religious Enemies to Allies and Friends. https://www.routledge.com/Jews-and-Muslims-in-Seventeenth-Century-Discourse-From-Religious-Enemies/Waite/p/book/9780815363576

Amsterdamnified Working Group Meeting (March 2019)

In March 2019 the Amsterdamnified team leaders will be hosting a symposium for project members and a small number of guests. Contact us if you would like more details.