A Research Project Website
Keywords: lay religion, heterodoxy, the devil, natural philosophy, Enlightenment, Spiritualists, Familists, Mennonites, Socinians, Quakers, David Joris, Baruch de Spinoza, Amsterdam, London.
We are seeking to collaborate with other scholars who are working in the area of spiritualism and spiritualists in Early Modern Europe. Join us!
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.
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.
Forthcoming: Gary K. Waite, “Early Modern Hair: Religion and Ritualized Belief”
A new special issue of Nova Religio (May 2018), guested edited by Michael Driedger and Johannes Wolfart. Free access at http://nr.ucpress.edu/.
From the 27th to the 30th of September several members of the Amsterdamnified Research Team (Ace Gammon-Burnett, Nina Schroeder, Gary Waite, and Mike Driedger) participated in an international conference organized by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in Toronto.Read more
The links below lead to specialized lists of research resources.
This Bibliography is very much a work in progress. Please do suggest additional works.
A working bibliography. Please suggest additions. Use the comments field or contact Gary Waite or Mike Driedger.
Gary Waite is a professor of history at the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton.
Michael Driedger teaches history at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
